Genetics

Besides genetics, what other factors are responsible for how you will grow and develop?

• How people treat you
• How hard you study
• Nutrition and environment
• What your parents look like

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Inherited traits are controlled by 

• genetic information in the genes
• the environment a baby is born into
• the nucleus and mitochondria
• none of the above

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A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring

• inherited trait
• chromosome
• pedigree
• DNA

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One of the threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell that contain directions for the cell's activities

• variation
• pedigree
• DNA
• chromosome

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The hidden form of an inherited trait

• dominant trait
• recessive trait
• purebred
• hybrid

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The form of an inherited trait that masks the other form of the same trait.

• dominant trait
• recessive trait
• purebred
• hybrid

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Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters? 

• Capital
• Lowercase

The physical appearance or the way a gene looks is known as it's....

• genotype
• allele
• gene
• phenotype

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The mathematical chance that something will happen is known as...

• chance
• luck
• probability

The different forms of genes are known as

• environment
• probability
• traits
• alleles

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