Genetics Vocabulary

What is a distinctive quality that can be passed from one generation to another?

• gene

• allele

• trait

• phenotype

What is a way in which a single parent produces offspring that is genetically identical to the parent?

• sexual reproduction

• DNA

• heredity

• asexual reproduction

What is a mathematical chance that an event will occur?

• probability

• Punnett square

• chance

• good guess

What is a trait that is masked in the phenotype ONLY when no dominant alleles for the characteristic are inherited in the genotype?

• dominant

• recessive

• genotype

• phenotype

What is another description for homozygous individuals.

• perfect

• hybrid

• CrAzY or cray-cray

• purebred

Person who studied genetic patterns in pea plants and often referred to as the “Father of Modern Genetics”?

• Gregor Mendeleev

• Greg Abbot

• Gregor Mendel

• Gregory Peck

What is an alternate form of one gene that are responsible for traits passed from parents to offspring?

• allele

• genes

• dominant trait

• DNA

What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring?

• genetics

• inherited traits

• heredity

• DNA

What is another term for a heterozygous individual.?

• dominant genotype

• hybrid

• purebred

• gamete

What is the physical expression of traits present in a genotype?

• heredity

• genes

• phenotype

• dominant