Gen Biology: Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Who is considered the father of genetics?

• Zuckerburg

• Mendel

• Jefferson

• Collen

plants that produce offspring of the same variety when they self- pollinate

• true- breeding

• hybridization

• locus

• characters

mating two contrasting, true- breeding varieties

• characters

• recessive

• hybridization

• dominant

defined as the "heritable features"

• heterozygous

• allele

• gene

• characters

trait expressed when genotype is homozygous

• recessive trait

• heterozygous trait

• dominant trait

• homozygous trait

this trait tends to be masked by other traits

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

trait expressed when genotype is heterozygous

• recessive trait

• heterozygous trait

• dominant trait

• homozygous trait

classifies as the genetic makeup (helps in punnett squares)

• genotype

• allele

• phenotype

• gene

classifies the physical appearance (helps in punnett squares)

• genotype

• allele

• phenotype

• gene

same alleles (FF, ff)

• heterozygous

• homozygous