Genetics Vocabulary Review

The study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Genology

• Alleles

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The passing of traits from parent to offspring

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Allele

• Ancestry

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The genetic factor that is observed because it blocks another genetic factor

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

The genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of the dominant factor

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

A section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• Sister Chromatid

• Centromere

• Gene

• Allele

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Different forms of a gene

• Flavor

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Genotype

An organism’s observable appearance or trait

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Heredity

• Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

An organism’s alleles put together that code for a phenotype

• Genotype

• Genetics

• Genes

• DNA

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The genotype when the two alleles of a gene are the same

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

The genotype when the two alleles of a gene are different

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait