Week 13 vocabulary - Genetics

Your physical characteristics

• inheritance

• Traits

• genotype

• allele

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

One gene from a pair

• inherited traits

• Chromosomes

• allele

• acquited traits

The set of genes carried by an organism; the genetic code

• allele

• chromosomes

• phenotype

• Genotype

The physical expression of the genes; physical appearance

• phenotype

• genotype

• heredity

• inheritance

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

the traits developed during life; not in your DNA

• Inherited traits

• Acquired Traits

• Chromosomes

• allele

contains the specific traits and generally come in pairs

• chromosome

• genotype

• genes

• phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

The passing of traits from one generation to the next

• Heredity

• chromosomes

• allele

• phenotype

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

the structures found in the nucleus of all cells that contain the genetic information

• trait

• gene

• allele

• Chromosomes

the genetic traits that you receive from your parents

• Chromosome

• Inheritance

• genotype

• traits

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Traits that are coded into your DNA that you received from your parents

• Inherited Traits

• acquired traits

• genotype

• genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2