Heredity Vocabulary Review

The passing of traits from parent to offspring.

• genetics

• homozygous

• heredity

• hybrid

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles.

• heredity

• genetics

• Gregor Mendel

• meosis

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Organism that receives different alleles from each parent.

• homozygous

• purebred

• hybrid

• dominant

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Organism that gets matching alleles from each parent.

• purebred

• heterozygous

• hybrid

• recessive

An allele that covers up recessive alleles.

• dominant

• recessive

• purebred

• homozygous

An allele that seems to disappear unless the partner allele is the same.

• dominant

• recessive

• phenotype

• genotype

A tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics.

• pedigree

• Punnett square

• genotype

• polygenic inheritance

The genetic make-up of an organism.

• purebred

• heterozygous

• phenotype

• genotype

The way an organism looks or behaves as a result of genetics.

• genotype

• heterozygous

• incomplete dominance

• phenotype

An organism with two alleles for the same trait that are the same.

• incomplete dominance

• homozygous

• zygote

• heterozygous