Heredity Vocab Quiz

Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents

• genes

• homozygous

• allele

• offspring

sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait

• genes

• homozygous

• allele

• offspring

the different forms of a gene; could be dominant or recessive

• genes

• homozygous

• allele

• offspring

threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

• DNA

• Chromosome

• Gene

• Nucleus

A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.

• Inherited characteristic

• Environmental Trait

• Gene

• Allele

A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents

• genetics

• asexual reproduction

• offspring

• sexual reproduction

a method of predicting the genotypes and phenotypes of offspring in genetic crosses

• offspring

• mendelean genetics

• Punnett square method

• genes

Having two identical alleles for a particular gene

• recessive allele

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant allele

having two different alleles for a trait

• recessive allele

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant allele

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

• recessive allele

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant allele