Genetics Vocab

Trait of an organism that can be “hidden” by the dominant form of a trait.

• Recessive

• Heredity

• Genotype

• Purebred

An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits

• Genetics

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Phenotype

An organism's complete set of genes, complete set of allele combinations.

• Alleles

• Hybrid

• Genetics

• Genotype

Different forms of a gene

• Alleles

• Traits

• Recessive

  A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait.

• Heterozygous

• Gene

• Genetics

• Hybrid

Offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.

• Heterozygous

• Hybrid

• Recessive

How you describe the alleles for a trait when they are the same

• Purebred

• Homozygous

• Dominant

  Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of

that trait.

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Genetics

• Genotype

An organism that always produces offspring with the same traits as the parents.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Purebred

The passing of traits from parent to offspring

• Traits

• Heredity

• Heterozygous