Genetics Vocab A

Genotype or Phenotype: Freckles

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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Genotype or Phenotype: ff

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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Homozygous or Heterozygous: ff

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

Homozygous or Heterozygous: Ff

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

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The homozygous recessive trait for no taste of PTC paper

• tt

• Tt

• TT

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Why are your chromosomes arranged in pairs?

• Scientists have no idea
• Because you get one from your mom and one from your dad
• Because pairs can divide easier
• Because DNA is awesome

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An alternate form of a gene for a specific trait or gene product

• genotype

• allele

• gene

• phenotype

A chart used to show all the ways genes from two parents can combine and be passed to offspring is a

• Pie chart

• Line graph

• Bar graph

• Punnett Square

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A term that describes the allele that determines the phenotype of an individual when two different copies are present in the genotype

• dominant

• recessive

• homozygous

• probability

The basic unit of heredity that consists of a segment of DNA on a chromosome

• chromosome

• double helix

• homozygous

• gene

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