Genetics Vocabulary Quiz

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters?

• Capital

• Lowercase

A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid

• Genetic Tic Tac Toe

• Punnett Square

• Pedigree Plot

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________.

• predators to prey

• water to rain

• fungi to protists

• parents to offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

___________________________ is the field of science that studies of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

• dominant traits

• genetics

• phenotype

• ratio

The father of genetics.

• Mendel

• Kodak Black

• Napolean

• EM Tiffany

One gene from the pair is called an _______ - a form of the trait.

• Homozygous gene

• Chromosome

• Allele

• Trait

The trait that will always be expressed when present.

• Inherited trait

• Recessive trait

• Dominant trait

• Heterozygous Gene

When two alleles for a trait are the same, e.g. TT, or tt.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Monohybrid cross

• Hybrid

When two alleles for a trait are the different, e.g. Tt.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Monohybrid cross

• Hybrid

What is a gene?

• An entire chromosome that codes for a trait

• a piece of clothing

• a piece of a DNA on chromosome that codes for a trait

• Chemical messengers in your brain that code for a trait