Genetics Vocabulary Quiz

What is the characteristics of an individual that can be inherited from their parents?

• Chromosomes
• Genes
• Traits
• Hormones

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is the process of traits being passed down from parents to offspring?

• Prey

• Transmission
• Offspring

• Inheritance

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What is the children of animal parents (that includes humans too)?

• Offspring
• Siblings
• Progeny
• Trait

__________ is an animal that hunts/eats other animals.

• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Vegetarian
• Predator

____________ is an animal that is being hunted by other animals.

• predator
• victim
• hunter
• prey

___________ is a pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its enviroment.

• Disguise
• Blendware
• Camouflage
• Invisibility

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

__________ is the genetic makeup on an organism (ex. TT).

• Genotype
• Allele
• Heredity
• Phenotype

_____________ is the physical characteristic of an organism (ex tall)

• creature

• phenotype

• characteristic

• genotype

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Allelle that is phenotypically expressed over another allele (the one that shows up)

• Primary
• Dominant
• Recessive
• Expressive

An allele that is only expressed in absence of a dominant trait (it stays in the shadow unless there are no dominant traits.

• Dominant allele
• Recessive allele
• Expressive allele
• Primary allele