Genetics Vocabulary

Crossing genotypes of parents to determine offspring.

• Monohybrid Cross

• Punnett Square

• Heredity

• Gamete

Trait that appears over a recessive form.

• Homozygous

• Dominant

• Heterozygous

• Locus

Trait that does not appear unless the dominant allele is absent.

• Mitosis

• Carrier

• Heterozygous

• Recessive

Process of making body cells

• Carrier

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

• Inheritance

Segment of nucleotides in DNA

• Phenotype

• Gene

• Gamete

• Locus

Bundles of genetic information.

• Locus

• Gamete

• Chromosomes

• Diploid

Study of heredity

• Haploid

• Inheritance

• Genotype

• Genetics

Sex cell

• Haploid

• Gamete

• Allele

• Genotype

Passing of traits from parent to offspring

• Inheritance

• Carrier

• Gamete

• Meiosis

Diagram used to predict the outcome of a pair of mating individuals.

• Probability Diagram

• Vin Diagram

• Flux Capacitor

• Punnett Square