Heredity

What is the passing of genetic material and traits from parents to offspring?

• heredity

• genetics

• alleles

• genes

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What is the study of how genetic traits are inherited?

• heredity

• genetics

• alleles

• genes

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What do you call different forms of genes, such as blue eye allele for the gene for eye color?

• allele

• heredity

• chromatin

• gene

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The capital letter that is the trait or allele which is seen if it is present is known as the ___________________ allele.

• dominant

• recessive

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The allele represented by the lowercase letter and is masked by the other allele is known as the ________________ allele or trait.

• dominant

• recessive

They physical appearance of a trait is known as the:

• phenotype

• genotype

The genetic make-up or specific combination of alleles, such as Aa and AA, is known as:

• phenotype

• genotype

The genotype of BB and bb are:

• homozygous

• heterozygous

The genotype of Bb is known as:

• homozygous

• heterozygous

B represents brown eyes. b represents blue eyes. A person with the genotype of Bb will have _______ eyes.

• brown

• blue

• green

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