Genetic Vocabulary

Physical characteristic

• Trait
• Heredity
• Genetics
• Genotype

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Study of Heredity

• Biology
• Geology
• Genetics
• Cellology

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Passing of traits from parent to offspring

• dating
• holding hands
• heredity
• mitosis

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different forms of a gene

• big or little
• simple and complex
• alleles
• co-dominant

describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait

• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genetics
• genes

an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each pare

• allele
• chromosome
• hybrid
• gene

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reproductive process that produces haploid sex cells

• meiosis
• genetics
• heredity
• DNA

The fundamental, physical, and functional unit of heredity

• genetics

• genotype

• phenotype

• gene

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What is the arrow pointing to?

• Phenotype

• genotpe

• allele

• gene

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The graphic represents two parents that are_________ for a trait.

• Pure dominant

• Homozygous domiinat

• Heterozygous

• gametes

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