Week 6 Vocab.

A behavior that an organism learns through observation of others.

• Learned Behavior

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Codominant

A specific characteristic of an individual.

• Genes

• Traits

• Genotype

• Phenotype

Carry the information for inherited traits in a living organism.

• Traits

• Heterozygous

• Genes

• Recessive

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Alternate form of a gene.

• Traits

• Genes

• Codominant

• Alleles

Characteristics that are passed down from parents to their young.

• Inherited Traits

• Learned Behaviors

• Offspring

• Dominant

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Traits that appear in offspring.

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Traits that are hidden in offspring (trait is only shown when both parents contribute the factor.)

• Dominant

• Heterozygous

• Recessive

• Homozygous

A diagram that is used to predict the possible genotypes of offspring.

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Incomplete Metamorphosis

• Punnett Square

The genetic makeup of an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Trait

• Genes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

The physical characteristic of an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Alleles

• Learned Behavior

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4