Genetics Vocab Part 1

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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Genotype is

• stem height

• feather color

• physical appearance

• genetic makeup

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A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring

• inherited trait
• chromosome
• pedigree
• DNA

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Ability to to ride a motorcycle

• inherited triat
• acquired trait
• genes
• Keelan

Different versions of a gene for the same trait

• chromosome

• gene

• allele

• DNA

The combination of alleles that an organism has from its mother and father

• genotype

• phenotype

• chromosome

• recessive

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A recessive allele is written as a(n)

• lower case letter

• upper case letter

• genotype

• phenotype

The _______________ is the genetic information for living organisms

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_______________________ alleles take over or mask the recessive allele

If a genotype has different alleles (the dominant and recessive) that is called

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