Heredity Exit Ticket

What is heredity?

• A laboratory technique used by geneticists

• A type of genetic disease

• The transmission of traits from one generation to the next

• The study of chromosomes in organisms

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What are genes?

• Sequences of DNA that determine inherited traits

• A model organism used in genetic studies

• A type of chromosome

• The physical appearance of an organism

What does it mean if an allele is dominant?

• It cannot be passed to offspring

• It is always expressed in the phenotype if present

• It can only be observed in the genotype

• It is a recessive trait

What is a phenotype?

• The observable (physical) traits of an organism

• A type of genetic disease

• The genetic makeup of an organism

• A sequence of DNA

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What is the role of a clinical geneticist?

• To study human genetics and its relation to health and disease

• To study the genetic makeup of bacteria

• To focus on plant genetics

• To create DNA maps for non-living entities

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How many chromosomes do humans have? IN TOTAL

• 46

• 12

• 23

• 92