Genetics Vocabulary (ELD)

What is the word for characteristics that are inherited, such as eye color or skin color?

What is the word for the study of how genes are passed on and expressed in offspring?

What is another word for receiving something that has been passed down from another generation?

What refers to physical traits that can be seen, like eye color?

• genotype

• phenotype

What refers to the genetic makeup of specific genes?

• genotype

• phenotype

What is an example of a phenotype?

• skin color

• eye color

• eye shape

• all of the above

What is the word for a change/process of when an organism becomes better at surviving its environment?

• adaptation

• combination

• genetics

• none of the above