Study Guide for Science

Passing on traits from one generation to another

• Character

• Inheritance

• Copycat

• Heredity

Answer explanation

Heredity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Why children look like their parents...

• Copycat

• They are one.

• Heterozygous

• Genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Having 2 identical alleles (Capital, one lowercase letter)

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Short people

• Tall people

Having two different alleles (one capital letter/one lower case letter)

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Copycat

• Opposite

Definition of hybrid

• Identical

• A fuel-injected car

• Hyperbole

• Heterozygous

Define homozygous

• 2 opposite alleles

• 2 identical alleles

• 2 persons

• 2 animals

Define heterozygous

• 2 different people

• 2 types of animals

• 2 same traits

• 2 different alleles

A dominant allele will have

• 2 letters

• 2 Capital letters

• A Capital letter

• 2 lower case letters

What it means to have a recessive allele?

• Uppercase letters

• Lowercase letters

• Two letters

• Three letters

What is a genotype?

• A physical trait

• A genetic disorder

• Letter combination

• Letters and numbers