Unit 3 Part 2 Vocabulary Quiz

(describing an allele or trait) always expressed in an organism

• codominance

• mutation

• dominant

• recessive

a trait controlled by two or more genes

• phenotype

• punnett square

• heterozygous

• polygenic trait

a chart that traces the inheritance of a trait or disease in a family over multiple generations

• codominance

• recessive

• mutagen

• pedigree

A display of the chromosome pairs of a cell arranged by size and shape

• karyotype

• genotype

• mutation

• phenotype

(describing an allele or trait) expressed in an organism only in the absence of a dominant allele

• karyotype

• recessive

• dominant

• pedigree

Characteristics that are inherited

• mutation

• genetics

• traits

• pedigree

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The scientific study of heredity

• traits

• genetics

• alleles

• genotype

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

a table used to identify possible combinations of dominant and recessive alleles in offspring

• pedigree

• codominance

• differentiation

• punnett square

three or more alleles of a single gene, of which any individual can inherit only two

• incomplete dominance

• differentiation

• multiple alleles trait

• punnett square

a pattern of inheritance in which two alleles of a gene are both expressed in the same organism

• codominance

• dominant

• incomplete dominance

• pedigree