Heredity Test Review

Traits that develop during life (the organisms is not born with it)

• inherited traits

• genetic traits

• acquired traits

• parental traits

Traits that are passed down from your biological parents genetic make-up

• inherited traits

• genetic traits

• acquired traits

• parental traits

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A _____ is a set of instructions for an inherited trait

• DNA

• Gene

• Trait

• Phenotype

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__________ are the alternate forms of a gene that governs inherited traits.

• DNA

• Alleles

• Genes

• Heredity

An allele that is fully expressed whenever the allele is present in an individual

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

Describes an allele that will be masked unless the organism has two of these for the trait.

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

What is the genotype of an individual that has two different alleles for a particular gene?

• Homozygous

• Homozygous Dominant

• BB

• Heterozygous

What is the genotype of an individual that has two dominant or two recessive alleles?

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous Dominiant

• Homozygous Recessive

• Bb

In blood typing 2 dominant alleles are expressed at the same time. This is what type of dominance?

• complete dominance

• incomplete dominance

• no dominance

• codominance

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called what?

• Reproduction

• Heredity

• Punnett Squares

• Good parenting

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