SP24 Bio12 Vocab Quiz

The scientific study of biological inheritance.

• genetics
• trait
• gene
• principle of dominance

In sexual reproduction when male and female reproductive cells join in a process.

• fertilization
• hybrid
• allele
• segregation

A specific characteristic.

• trait
• gene
• principle of dominance
• gamete

The offspring of crosses between parents with different contrasting characteristics.

• hybrid
• allele
• segregation
• probability

An individual's characteristics are determined by factors that are passed from one parental generation to the next.

• gene
• principle of dominance
• gamete
• homozygous

The different forms of a single gene.

• allele
• segregation
• probability
• heterozygous

Mendel's second conclusion stating that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive.

• principle of dominance
• gamete
• homozygous
• phenotype

Separation of alleles during gamete formation.

• segregation
• probability
• heterozygous
• genotype

Reproductive cells.

• gamete
• homozygous
• phenotype
• Punnett square

The likelihood that a particular event will occur.

• probability
• heterozygous
• genotype
• independent assortment