Chapter 5: Genetics

A trait that can be hidden.

• recessive
• dominant
  trait
• dominant

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A trait that overpowers or hides another.

• trait
• dominant
• chromosomes

These are made of DNA and carry the genes (humans have 46).

• genes
• trait
• chromosomes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.

• trait
• gene
• chromosome

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Only people have genes.

• true
• false

The letters that show an organism's genetic makeup is called its?

• genotype
• phenotype
• pedigree

The physical appearance of an organism's is called its?

• genotype
• phenotype
• pedigree

In a Punnett square, a capital letter stands for a _______ gene.

• heterozygous
• recessive
• dominant

Most of a person's genes come from its mother.

• true
• false

Which of the following letters represents homozygous recessive?

• TT
• Tt
• tt