Genetic Vocabulary

Physical characteristic

• Trait
• Heredity
• Genetics
• Genotype

different forms of a gene

• big or little
• simple and complex
• alleles
• co-dominant

describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait

• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genetics
• genes

reproductive process that produces haploid sex cells

• meiosis
• genetics
• heredity
• DNA

_________is used to solve genetic crossing of parents and possible offsprings

• Genetics

• Punnett Square

• Phenotypes

• Probability

A table used to predict what traits offspring will have based on their parents.

• Punnett square
• word bank
• alleles
• homozygous dominant

The genetic makeup of a trait. For example: Tt or TT (T = tall height)

• Genetics
• Genotype
• Chromosome
•  Eye color

The physical characteristic of a trait. For example: A tall pea plant

• Genotype
• RNA
• DNA
• Phenotype

structures that contain hereditary information and transfer it to the next generation

• genotype

• phenotype

• alleles

• chromosomes

variations of genes that determines traits in organisms

• chromosomes

• alleles

• genotypes

• phenotypes