Sicence Exam review for Grade 8

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Dominant Traits

• Recessive Trait

• Genetics

• Heredity

A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor is called?

• Recessive Trait

• Dominant Trait

• Heretidy

• Genetics

The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• Genetics

• DNA

• rRNA

• Heredity

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

• Recessive Trait

• Dominant Trait

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance

(blank) is a section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.

• Gene

• Alleles

• Homozygous

• DNA

(blank) occurs when multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait.

• Heterozygous

• Incomplete dominance

• Polygenic Inheritance

• Codominance

Two alleles of a gene are the same, its genotype is (blank)

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozzygous

• Punnett Square

An organism's genetic material

• DNA

• RNA

• Nucleotide

• Translation

A (blank) is a molecule made of a nitrogen base, a sugar, and a phosphate group.

• Replication

• Nucleotide

• mRNA

• Transcription

A (blank) is a model used to predict possible genotype and phenotype of offspring

• Punnett Square

• Pedigrees

• Phenotype

• Gene