Genetics Vocabulary

What is a physical characteristic of an organism that is NOT passed down to offspring genetically?

• Inherited Trait

• Mutated Trait

• Dominant Trait

• Acquired Trait

One of the pair that make up a gene

• DNA

• Allele

• Chromatid

• Traits

A structure found in the nucleus of most living cells, that genes are found on.

• Ribonucleic acid

• Deoxyribonucleic acid

• Allele

• Chromosome

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A condition in which both alleles are dominant and show up in the phenotype at the same time

• Codominance

• Dominant

• Incomplete dominance

• Recessive

The strongest trait within a gene pair.

• Codominance

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Incomplete dominance

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity that make up DNA, act as instructions to make molecules is a___________________

• Allele

• Gene

• Codes

• Mutations

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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What is the changing of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material?

• Genetic engineering

• Environmental factors

• Incomplete dominance

• Genetic mutations

What is an individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color, and blood type called?

• Genotype

• Codominance

• Phenotype

• Dominance

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What is the genetic make-up of an individual organism known as?

• Phenotype

• Chromosomes

• Genotype

• Dominance

Heterozygous means ________________

• having one each of two different alleles

• having two of the same alleles

• having two dominant alleles

• having two recessive alleles