science chapter 12

What do you call the passing of traits from parent to offspring?

• genetics

• heredity

• codominance

• polygenic inheritance

the study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring

• heredity

• incomplete dominance

• homozygous

• genetics

the father of genetics

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Gregor Mendel

• Marie Curie

What did Mendel experiment on?

• pea plants

• sunflowers

• cats

• apples

pollen from one flower lands on a different flower's pistil

pollen from a flower lands on it's own pistil

plants that have the same traits as it's parents

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• true breeding plants

• polygenic

how many genetic factors control each trait

a genetic factor that blocks out another genetic factor

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant trait is a