Module 5 Patterns of Inheritance Vocabulary Practice LIST #2

an organism with either two dominant or two recessive alleles for a gene pair

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• phenotype

• trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

an organism with both a dominant and a recessive allele for a gene pair

• genotype

• heterozygous

• allele

• homozygous

the passing of traits from parents to offspring

• homozygous

• gene

• heredity

• heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

the sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parents to offspring

• heredity

• allele

• phenotype

• gene

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

a different form of a gene

• allele

• gene

• dominant allele

• heredity

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

a specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes

• heredity

• trait

• recessive allele

• genotype

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

an organism's genetic makeup, or allele combinations

• phenotype

• allele

• trait

• genotype

an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present

• phenotype

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• genotype

an organism's physical appearance, or visible traits

• phenotype

• dominant allele

• genotype

• trait

an allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• homozygous

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• trait