Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 12, Lessons 1 & 2

The word Heredity means?

• How a trait appears

• The study of the DNA or an organism

• Passing traits from parents to offspring

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

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The definition of Genetics is...

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

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A dominant trait is?

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

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A recessive trait is...?

• A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor.

• A genetic factor that blocked another genetic factor

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

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A gene is defined as...?

• The different forms of a gene

• A section of a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• The two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait

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

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What are alleles?

• They are different forms of a gene

• Models used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of of offspring.

• When both alleles can be observed in a phenotype.

• The offspring's phenotype is a combination of the parent's phenotypes

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What is a Phenotype?

• When the two alleles of a gene are the same.

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

• It is what geneticists call how a trait appears, or is expressed

• The two alleles that control the genetype of a trait

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What is a genotype?

• It is the two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait.

• It is if the two alleles of a gene are the same.

• It is if the two alles of a gene are the different

• The section of on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.

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What does it mean to be homozygous?

• When you have two alleles of a gene that are the same

• When you have two alleles of a gene that are different

• When two alleles control the phenotype of a trait.

• A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring.

What is a Punnet Square?

• A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring

• When the offspring's phenotype is a combination of the parent's phenotypes

• When both alleles can be observed in a phenotype,

• When multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait