Chapter 11 Vocabulary Quiz

What is the study of heredity?

• probability

• genetics

• crossing-over

• dominant and recessive traits

What is the process in sexual reproduction in which a make and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell?

• gene

• zygote

• fertilization

• meiosis

What is a specific characteristic of an individual?

• allele

• gene

• gametes

• trait

What is a factor that is passed from parent to offspring?

• allele

• gene

• gametes

• trait

What is one of a number of different forms of a gene?

• allele

• gene

• gametes

• trait

What are the sex cells?

• allele

• gene

• gametes

• trait

What states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive?

• principle of dominance

• independent assortment

• homologous

• segregation

What the separation of alleles?

• principle of dominance

• independent assortment

• homologous

• segregation

What is the likelihood that a particular event will occur?

• probability

• genetics

• crossing-over

• dominant and recessive traits

When a particular gene has two identical alleles?

• homozygous

• heterozygous