Genetics and heredity

What is heredity?

• The passing of traditions from parents to their children

• A type of asexual reproduction.

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

• Another term for sexual reproduction.

The study of ____________ is called genetics

• heredity

• dominance

• pea plants

• mutations

The organism's appearance is known as its

• heredity

• pedigree

• phenotype

• genotype

_____________ describes a trait that covers over, or masks another form of that trait.

• recessive

• gene

• allele

• dominant

Same traits produced in offspring from generation to generation is called?

• pure breeding

• cross breeding

• hybrid

• children

The offspring that result from cross breeding are called?

• phenotype

• genotype

• hybrid

• gene

The letters representing the phenotype is called

• phenotype

• genotype

Different forms of a gene are called

• alleles

• traits

A ______________ square is a model that helps make genetic predictions.

• Punnett

• Mendel

Two of the same alleles of the gene for a certain trait

• heterozygous

• homozygous