Genetics Vocabulary

What is heredity?

• The passing of traits from child to parents

• The passing of traits from parents to their children

• The trading of traits between organisms

• None of the above

Which of the following is responsible for your traits?

• Jeans

• Genes

• Dominant Traits

• Recessive Traits

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Traits can have different forms known as

• Variations

• Characteristics

• Genes

• Alleles

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What do mutations cause?

• A change in genetic makeup/ instructions

• A change in ones appearance (sometimes)

• Loss of your senses

• Teenage mutant ninja turtles

• Both A and B

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Brown eyes can mask or hide genes for green eyes. Therefore brown eyes are

• Derived Traits

• Recessive Traits

• Really strong genes that can lift weights

• Dominant Traits

Having straight hair is a gene that is often hidden or masked by curly hair genes. Why is this?

• It is a dominant trait

• It is a recessive trait

• Having straight hair is normal

• Both A and B

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Which of the following holds ALL the instructions to make you, you?

• DNA

• Genes

• Heredity

• Traits

Which term is used to best describe an organism's outer appearance?

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Blood Type

• Variations

Which of the following is not a Phenotype?

• Having brown hair

• Having freckles

• Curly Hair

• Bb