Genetics

A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring

• inherited trait
• chromosome
• pedigree
• DNA

One of the threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell that contain directions for the cell's activities

• variation
• pedigree
• DNA
• chromosome

Genotype refers to the ...

• physical expression of the genes
• the possible combination of alleles in a gene
• whether an allele is dominant or recessive
• how an organism will appear

What is a phenotype

• The genetic make up (code)
• The physical trait

having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

having two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid).

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG
• Gg
• gg
• all of the choices result in yellow

Term for an organism that display two dominant phenotypes at the same time

• codominance
• incomplete dominance
• multiple alleles
• linked genes

What does heterozygous mean?

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (TT or tt)
• An organism that has different genes for a trait (Tt)
• When neither gene is fully dominant; offspring is a mixture of both
• the different forms of a trait (hair color--> brown, blonde, red

Incomplete dominance means that the traits are

• expressed equally
• dominant
• recessive
• blended