Life Sci Inheritance Vocab Quiz

Genetics is the study of how ___________ are passed on.

• Possessions.

• Traits.

• Hand-me-downs.

• Technology.

Heredity is the passing of ____________ from parents to offspring (children).

• Heredity.

• Organisms.

• Traits.

• Plants.

What are the different forms of a gene called?

• Alleles

• Genes

• DNA

• Organisms

 An organism that has two identical genes for a trait is said to be _________.

• hybrid for the trait
• incompletely dominant for the trait
• heterozygous for the trait
• homozygous for the trait

What are alleles?

• Different versions of a chromosome

• Different versions of DNA

• Different versions of a gene

• Different versions of a phenotype

What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?

• Genotype is observable traits, Phenotype is the combination of alleles that you inherit.

• Genotype is the combination of alleles that you inherit, Phenotype is observable traits.

• They are identical

• Phenotype is used to describe physical traits, and Genotype is used to describe personality traits.

What is heredity?

• The passing of money from parents to offspring.

• The passing of genetic material from parents to offspring.

• The passing of opinions from parents to offspring.

• The passing of education from parents to offspring.

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

a tool to organize all of the possible combinations of offspring from particular parents

• Punnett square
• gene
• fertilization
• mitosis

is a set of instructions for an inherited trait; it can have multiple forms

• gene
• phenotype
• genotype
• homologous chromosome