heredity test review

The passing of physical characteristics, or traits, from parent to offspring.

• Genetics

• Dominant allele

• Heredity

• Recessive allele

The different forms of a gene.

• Genes

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Pedigree

A trait that always shows up when the allele is present.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• allele

• Dominant allele

A chart that shows all the possible ways alleles can combine in a genetic cross.

• Pedigree

• Family tree

• Heterozygous

• Punnett square

A chart or a family tree that shows the presence or absence of a trait according to the relationships within a family across several generations.

• Punnett square

• Pedigree

• Heredity

• Purebred

Physical appearance or physical trait.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Allele

• Trait

An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait.

• Twins

• Heterozygous

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant allele

• Hybrid

A dominant trait is....

• A trait that always comes out

• A trait that is always hidden

• A mutation

• An angry gene

A recessive trait is

• A trait that always hides from the dominant trait

• A trait that always beats the dominant trait

• A trait that only happens in mom's side of the family

• None of these