Test #4: Genetics Vocabulary

The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Trait

• Gene

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring:

• Trait

• Genotype

• Heredity

• Phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

_______ are characteristics or attributes of an organism that are expressed by genes and/or influenced by the environment.

• Recessive

• Allele

• Gene

• Traits

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

In genetics, a trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it.

• genotype

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

One of two or more versions of DNA sequence (a single base or a segment of bases) at a given genomic location.

• Pure

• Allele

• Recessive

• X-linked Trait

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Refers to the relationship between an observed trait and the two inherited versions of a gene related to that trait.

• Recessive Trait

• Dominant Trait

• Allele

• Pure

_______ offspring of parents that differ in genetically determined traits.

• Homozygous

• Hybrid

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Refers to having inherited the same versions (alleles) of a genomic marker from each biological parent.

• Hybrid

• Homozygous

The genetic arrangement that makes up the traits that an organism inherited from its parents.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A person who has a change in only one gene of a pair and the other gene of the pair is working normally. A ______ is sometimes said to have the disease trait but has no physical symptoms of the disease.

• Trait

• Carrier

• Phenotype

• Punnet Square