Genetics Vocabulary Review

_______ is the genetic material that carries all the information about how a living thing will look and function.  It has a double helix shape. 

• Traits
• Recessive Allele
• Dominant Allele
• DNA

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring is called ______.

• Heredity
• Genes
• Phenotype
• Allele

_______ carry the information that determines your traits such as eye color. 

• phenotype
• genotype
• genes
• dominant

_____ is the two letter genetic code that determines an organism's traits. 

• Phenotype
• Genotype
• Heredity
• Pistil 

What you see on an organism, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• DNA
• Recessive

a characteristic of an organism

• allele
• trait
• phenotype
• genotype

one form of a gene

• genotype
• phenotype
• allele
• monohybrid

a gene that shows up in an organism

• dominant gene
• recessive gene
• genotype
• phenotype

a gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

• dominant gene
• recessive gene
• homozygous
• heterozygous

a model used to represent crosses between organisms

• trait
• heredity
• Punnett Square
• phenotype