Genetics Vocabulary

_______________-having 2 identical alleles for a trait

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Heredity

_______________ - an offspring of crosses that has 2 different alleles for a trait

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Heredity

______________-- having 2 different alleles for a trait.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Hereidty

_______________ - physical appearance of a trait in offspring

• Geneotype

• Phenotype

• Heredity

• Genetics

____________ - a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Punnett Square

• Mendel Square

___________ -an offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait.

• Phenotype

• Purebred

• Gene

• Genetics

_____________ - an allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• Recessive

• Heredity

• Dominant

• Allele

______________ - a specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring

• Treaty

• Genetic

• Trait

• Purebred

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_____________ - the different forms of a gene

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Allele

• Attribute

_____________ - a thread-like structure within a cell’s nucleus that contains DNA that is passed form one generation to the next. 

• Heredity

• Gene

• Allele

• Chromosome

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