Genetics Vocabulary Quiz

The passing on of characteristics or traits from parents to offspring.

• Hybrid

• Heredity

• Allele

• Gene

Specialized sex cells which contain half of the genetic material compared to a body cell.

• Gametes

• Heredity

• Allele

• Gene

Offspring of parents that have different forms of a trait.

• Heredity

• Gametes

• Heterotroph

• Hybrid

A section of DNA that codes for a specific protein and therefore determines a trait.

• Gene

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Heredity

Different forms of a gene.

• Gene

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Genotype

The way an organism looks and behaves. (Physical appearance)

• Hybrid

• Genotype

• Gametes

• Phenotype

The allele combination of an organism. (Genes)

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Allele

• Gene

Organism with two of the same allele for a given trait.

• Genotype

• Heredity

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

Organism with two different alleles for a given trait.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Phenotype

• Genotype

A type of cell division that produces four cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

• Diploid

• Haploid