Unit 6, Vocab (Bio)

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a segment of DNA that codes for a specific trait.

• Gene

• Chromosome

• Nucleotide

• Protein

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Fill in the blank: An ______ is a different form of a gene, typically one from each parent.

• Allele

• Chromosome

• Nucleotide

• Protein

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Fill in the blank: A ______ ______ is an allele that masks the effect of a recessive allele; represented by a capital letter.

• Dominant Allele

• Recessive Allele

• Incomplete Dominance

• Codominant Allele

Fill in the blank: A ______ ______ is an allele that is only expressed when two copies are present; represented by a lowercase letter.

• Recessive Allele

• Dominant Allele

• Homozygous Allele

• Heterozygous Allele

Fill in the blank: ______ means having two identical alleles for a specific gene.

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

Fill in the blank: ______ means having two different alleles for a specific gene.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

Fill in the blank: ______ refers to the genetic makeup of an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Chromosome

• Allele

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Fill in the blank: ______ refers to the physical expression of a trait.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Allele

• Chromosome

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Fill in the blank: ______ refers to organisms that produce offspring identical to themselves when self-pollinated.

• Purebreed

• Hybrid

• Crossbreed

• Mutant

A ______ is the offspring resulting from the cross of two different true-breeding lines.

• Hybrid

• Clone

• Mutant

• Variant