Heredity Vocabulary

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is __________

• genetics

• heredity

• biology

• mineralology

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The scientific study of heredity is _____________

• heredity

• genetics

• biology

• boring

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A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes is called a _____________

• gene

• dominant allele

• trait

• recessive allele

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A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent to offspring is called a _________.

• allele

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• gene

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An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present is a ________________ allele.

• dominant

• recessive

An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present is the ___________ allele

• dominant

• recessive

The ___________ is an organism's physical appearance, or visible trait.

• gene

• genotype

• phenotype

• heredity

A chart that shows all of the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross is called a _____________ square.

• pretty

• punted

• punnett

• pink

An organism's genetic makeup or allele combinations. Represented by uppercase and lowercase letters.

• genotype

• phenotype

• alleles

• probability

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Having two different alleles for a particular gene

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• hybrid

• purebred