Heredity

The study of heredity is

• Geology

• Genetics

• Physics

• Chemistry

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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If a child has red hair, they inherited a certain _______________ from their parents.

• ratio
• trait
• probability
• sex chromosome

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Characteristics that are passed from parents to their offspring are called 

• behaviors
• learned traits
• inherited traits
• functions

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What is NOT an example of an inherited TRAIT?

• eye color
• tongue rolling
• height
• speaking a language

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Different versions of a gene.

• heredity

• gene

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

The combination of alleles that you inherited from your parents. This is what you genes look like, the letters. ex. HhGg

• heredity

• gene

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

The observable traits. This is what you physically look like, or what gene is expressed. ex. Round Yellow

• heredity

• gene

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

An organism with two dominant or two recessive alleles. Or same.

• heterozygous

• homozygous

An organism with one dominant and one recessive allele. Or different.

• heterozygous

• homozygous