Foundation: Genetics

An organism that has both aleles in the same form: dominant or recessive

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Heredity

• Allele

An organism that has one dominant allele and one recessive allele.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Gene

• Trait

An organism's genetic make up. Usually expressed in letters.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Dominate Trait

• Recessive Trait

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Punnett Square

• Genetics

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

A tool to predict the probability of certain traits that could be found in the offspring.

• Punnett Square

• Recessive Trait

• Allele

• Heterozygous Allele

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Select all of the following genotypes that are considered Heterozygous.

• AA

• Bb

• zz

• Dd

• Hh

Select all of the following genotypes that are considered Homozygous.

• AA

• bb

• Hh

• Dd

• zz

Red flowers (R) are dominant over white flowers (r). Select the genotypes that would produce red flowers.

• RR

• Rr

• rr

• Rw

Green peas plants (G) are dominant over yellow pea plants (g). What genotype(s) would produce a yellow pea plant?

• GG

• Gg

• gg

• Gy

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Brown Eyes (B) are dominate to green eyes (b).

What phenotype would be produced by the following genotype.

bb

• brown eyes

• green eyes

• blue eyes

• purple eyes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1