Genetics Vocabulary

What's a Recessive Gene?

• The gene with the most power 
• None of the Above
• A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
• The study of Family

What is Genotype?

• The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
• Typing Genes
• A video game on computers 
• The traits you are able to see on a person

What is Phenotype? 

• A game 
• The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment.
• None of the Above
• The study of football

What's Homozygous?

• having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
• Different things an organism can buy 
• The price of something
• A disease 

What is Heterozygous? 

• A cure for a disease 
• A genetic malfunction 
• 1+1=None of the above 
• having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic

What is a punnett square?

• A rectangle 
• None of these 
• in genetics, a type of grid used to show the gametes of each parent and their possible offspring; a type of grid that can indicate all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross; also called checkerboard

What are alleles?

• None of these 
• A special type of meme or gif 
• any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.

What is a probability?

• Knowing something will happen 
• a strong likelihood or chance of something

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