Genetics and Heredity Concepts

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring

• Dominant

• Genetics

• Heredity

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The signs of heredity and of the mechanisms by which traits are passed from parent to offspring

• Law a segregation

• Heredity

• Genetics

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The expressed form of a trait

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Probability

The trait that is not expressed when the dominant form of the trait was present

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Incomplete dominance

Describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on both homologous chromosomes

• Homozygous

• Heterzygous

• Phenotype

It describes an individual that has 2 different alleles for a trait

• Homozygous

• Heterzygous

• Genotype

The entire genetic makeup of an organism, also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits

• Phenotype

• Genotype

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

An organisms, appearance or other detectable characteristics that result from the organism's genotype and the environment

• Phenotype

• Genotype

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Mendel's law that states that the pairs of homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis, so that only one chromosome would from each pair is present in gamete

• Law of separation

• Law of independent assortment

• Crossing over

The law that state that genes separate independently from one another in meiosis

• Law of segregation

• Law of independent assortment

• Crossing over