Traits, Genotypes, and Phenotypes

Are recessive alleles shown with capital or lowercase letters?

• Capital

• Lowercase

The physical appearance or the way a trait is expressed is known as it's....

• genotype

• allele

• gene

• phenotype

The different forms of genes are known as

• environment
• probability
• traits
• alleles

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An allele or gene that always shows is

• recessive
• dominant
• hidden
• present

Two of the same alleles for a trait

• homozygous

• hetrozygous

• protein

• chromosome

Two different alleles for a trait

• protein

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• genotype

Dominant alleles are represented by a:

• Male gene
• lowercase letter
• recessive trait
• capital letter

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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___________________________ is the field of science that studies of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

• dominant traits
• ratio
• phenotype
• genetics

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What is a gene?

• An entire chromosome that  codes for a trait
• a piece of clothing
• a piece of a DNA on chromosome that codes for a trait
• Chemical messengers in your brain that code for a trait

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