HeredityVocab

The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Gene

• Trait

Having two different alleles for a trait.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Purebred

• Gene

Having two identical alleles for a trait.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Gene

An organism that has two different alleles for a trait; an organism that is heterozygous for a particular trait.

• Hybrid

• Purebred

• Dominant

• Recessive

Different forms of a gene.

• Trait

• Allele

• Genetics

• Heredity

A double rod of condensed chromatin

• RNA

• mRNA

• Chromosome

• DNA

A condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominant or recessive

• Codominance

• Probablity

• Pedigree

• Phenotype

An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.

• Dominant allele

• Recessive allele

• Hybrid

• Genotype

The genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring.

• Chromosome

• DNA

• mDNA

• RNA

Joining of a sperm and an egg.

• Punnet Square

• Pedigree

• Fertilization

• Reproduction