Heredity Vocab

Basic unit of heredity that consists of a segment of DNA on a chromosome

• phenotype

• genotype

• gene

• allele

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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

• probability

• allele

• recessive

• DNA

An allele that determines an individual organism when two different copies are present in the genotype

• recessive

• dominant

• probability

• heterozygous

when an individual inherits the same alleles for a particular gene from both parents

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• punnett square

• heredity

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

When an offspring has inherited different forms of a particular gene from each parent

• dominant

• homozygous

• phenotype

• heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Genetic makeup of an organism; all the genes that an organism has

• heredity

• DNA

• probability

• allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The observable characteristic or traits of an organism

• recessive

• genotype

• phenotype

• heredity

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NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

the likelihood that a specific outcome will occur out of a total number of outcomes

• probability

• punnett square

• heredity

• gene

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Chart used to show all the ways genes from two parents can combine to be passed to offspring

• allele

• DNA

• punnett square

• recessive

An allele that is not expressed then combined with a dominant for of the gene

• heredity

• dominant

• recessive

• allele