traits, genes, alleles

referred to as the "father of genetics"

• Albert Einstein

• James Watson

• Gregor Mendel

• Dmitri Mendeleev

Two dominant alleles

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous Dominant

• Homozygous Recessive

• Heterozygous Dominant

represented by a lowercase letter

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• phenotype

• homozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

physical appearance

• genotype

• heterozygous

• phenotype

• allele

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A dominant allele is stronger than a recessive allele.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A dominant allele will occur more often in a population than a recessive allele.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

represented by an uppercase letter

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• homozygous

• heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which letter combination represents Homozygous Dominant?

• Bb

• BB

• bb

• BA

Which letter combination represents Homozygous Recessive?

• Bb

• BB

• bb

• BA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which letter combination represents Heterozygous?

• Bb

• BB

• bb

• BA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2