Inheritance Vocab Practice

An individual's physical trait (how they look - i.e. they have curly hair)

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Dominant

• Pedigree

A diagram that visually represents how certain traits are inherited from generation to generation

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Pedigree

• Heterozygee

The combination of genes that someone has is known as their ______________

• Phenotype

• Pedigree

• Genotype

• DNA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Hair color is an example of a

• genotype
• phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

A ________ gene will always show through in the phenotype when it is present in the genotype. They are represented by CAPITAL letters

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

__________ genes only show through in the phenotype when there are two of them. They are represented by lowercase letters.

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Allele

• Homozygous

What is it called when a person has two of the same gene. Either two recessive (bb) or two dominant (BB)

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Genotypous

• Homogenous

What do we call a genotype that has One Dominant and One Recessive gene such as Bb.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Genozygous

• How am I supposed to know?

How would you describe the genotype BB

• Heterozygous Dominant

• Heterozygous Recessive

• Homozygous Dominant

• Homozygous Recessive