Quizizz: Heredity!

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• heredity
• genetics
• trait
• alleles

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Who is Gregor Mendel

• an Austrian Monk and botanist from the mid-1800s who contributed to the study of Genetics using pea plants

• The scientist who discovered the structure of DNA

• a British scientist who discovered penicillin

• The scientist who used X-Ray Crystallography to shed light on the structure of DNA

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Genetically determined characteristics that are coded by genes are known as:

• heredity

• traits

• gene

• alleles

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The different forms of the same gene

• heredity

• genetics

• gene

• alleles

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This trait always shows up (gets expressed) in an organism when the allele is present

• dominant allele

• codominance

• probability

• recessive allele

This trait is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• dominant allele
• codominance
• recessive allele
• Punnett Square

The written expression of a trait

• fertilization

• genotype

• phenotype

• heterozygous

An organism's physical appearance or visible traits

• fertilization
• genotype
• phenotype
• homozygous

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An organism that has two different alleles for a trait (hybrid)

• fertilization
• genotype
• homozygous
• heterozygous

An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait (purebred)

• genotype
• phenotype
• homozygous
• heterozygous