Genetics Vocabulary

One of the genes in a pair

• Chromosome

• Gene

• Allele

• hybrid

May have some of the same charateristics/characteristics passed from parents to offspring,

• Genetic Trait

• HybridTrait

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

A trait designated by ALL lower case letters

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

• Hybrid Trait

• Missing Trait

The set of genes carried by an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Gametes

• Acquired Traits

The product of sexual reproduction.

• Parents

• Genes

• Brother

• Offspring

What is a Phenotype?

• A pair of genes

• Chromosome pairs

• The physical expression of a gene

• The genetic sequence of dominant and recessive alleles

Trait represented by ALL upper case letters

• Dominant

• Acquired

• Hybrid

• Recessive

Hetereozygous is

• Two of the same alleles

• Two chromosomes

• Two different alleles

• Two dominant alleles

When two alleles are the same this referred to as

• Heterozygous

• Heterogeneous

• Homozygous

• Homogeneous

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity

• Chromosome

• DNA

• RNA

• Gene