Heredity vocabulary

The specific genetic makeup of an organism, actual showing of alleles from both parents

• trait

• genotype

• dominant

• allele

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The alternative form of a gene that may occur at a specific locus.

• recessive

• gene

• trait

• Allele

Phenotypes of both alleles are clearly expressed

• the law of segregation

• codominance

• trait

• recessive

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Separation of alleles during gamete formation

• segregation

• principle of dominance

• trait

• genotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What Mendel discovered by conducting dihybrid crosses. He noted that genes from different traits can sort separately from on another.

• probability

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Homozygous

• phenotype

one allele is not completely dominant over another (mix or combination of the two)

• Incomplete dominance

• segregation

• law of independent assortment

• multiple alleles

many traits produced by the interaction of several genes

• codominance

• hybrid

• dominant

• polygenetic traits

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Alleles that are identical to one another.

• dominant

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• recessive

A distinguishing characteristic that can be inherited.

• genetics

• hybrid

• dominant

• trait

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The allele that expresses itself in a heterozygous individual

• homozygous

• recessive

• dominant

• trait