Mendel and Meiosis Vocab Quiz

the study of heredity

• Genotype

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Genetic Recombination

Fusion of an egg and sperm cell

• Zygote

• Fertilization

• Meiosis

• Nondisjunction

Passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Phenotype

• Genetics

• Nondisjunction

• Heredity

every individual has two alleles of each gene and when gametes are produced, each gamete receives one of these alleles

• Phenotype

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Segregation

• Zygote

An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.

• Homozygous

• Allele

• Trait

• Phenotype

Error in meiosis in which homologous chromosomes fail to separate correctly

• Fertilization

• Genetic Recombination

• Phenotype

• Nondisjunction

having two different alleles for a trait

• Recessive

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Phenotype

specialized cell involved in sexual reproduction

• Genotype

• Allele

• Gamete

• Zygote

inherited characteristic

• Phenotype

• Allele

• Trait

• Heredity

new combination of genes produced by crossing over and independent assortment

• genetic recombination

• fertilization

• phenotype

• nondisjunction