Heredity

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

• Genetics

• Dominant allele

• Heredity

• Recessive allele

The scientific study of heredity.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Probability

• Pedigree

An organism that is the offspring of many generations that show the same form of a trait.

• Heterozygous

• Dominant allele

• Purebred

• Genotype

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 trait that is always hidden when the dominant allele is present.

• Phenotype

• Recessive allele

• Genotype

• Heredity

An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.

• Genes

• Heterozygous

• Genotype

• Dominant allele

A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.

• Probability

• Punnett square

• Pedigree

• Genotype

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