Genetics Vocabulary

The passing of traits from parent to offspring.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Genes

• Phenotype

An organism that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as the parents’

• Phenotype

• Traits

• Chromosomes

• purebred

The different forms of a gene

• Genes

• Alleles

• Traits

• Phenotype

A trait that is hidden when a dominant allele is present

• Homozygous

• Recessive allele

• Dominant allele

• Gene

The likelihood that a particular event will occur

• Punnet Square

• Probability

• allele

• Hybrids

Physical appearance of a trait

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Heterozygous

• Hybrids

An organism having 2 identical alleles

• Hybrids

• Genotype

• Homozygous

• Purebred

An organism having 2 different alleles for a trait

• Heterozygous

• purebred

• Traits

• Alleles

The study of heredity

• Phenotype

• Heredity

• Traits

• Genetics

The factors that control traits

• Genes

• Traits

• Phenotype

• Allele