Genetics Vocabulary Review

What is the process by which male and female reproductive cells join to produce a new cell?

• Fertilization

• Segregation

• Gamete

• Hybrids

What is a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes?

• Probability

• Genes

• Alleles

• Trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What do you call the offspring of crosses between parents with different traits?

• Genotype

• Segregation

• Principle of Dominance

• Hybrids

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What are the units of heredity that are passed from parents to offspring?

• Phenotype

• Alleles

• Homozygous

• Genes

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What do you call the different forms of a gene?

• Alleles

• Heterozygous

• Independent Assortment

• Punnett Square

Which principle states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive?

• Principle of Dominance

• Genotype

• Probability

• Trait

What is the separation of alleles during gamete formation?

• Segregation

• Genes

• Heterozygous

• Phenotype

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What are the reproductive cells that have only one set of chromosomes?

• Gamete

• Fertilization

• Genotype

• Hybrids

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is the likelihood that a particular event will occur?

• Probability

• Alleles

• Homozygous

• Punnett Square

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

What do you call an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait?

• Independent Assortment

• Trait

• Genes

• Homozygous