Polygenic Inheritance

The different forms of a gene are called

• traits

• pollinators

• alleles

• hybrids

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The physical appearance of an organisms is its

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• characteristic

• Heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Examples include skin color and height (the individual's phenotype exists somewhere along a spectrum)

• polygenic inheritance

• multiple alleles

• linked genes

• incomplete dominance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

having two different alleles of a gene

• homozygous
• heterzygous
• polygenic inheritance
• codominance

having the same two alleles of a gene

• heterozygous
• homozygous
• incomplete dominance
• codominance

An example of polygenic inheritance is...

• Skin Color
• hitch hikers thumb
• blood types

A trait that can be hidden.

• recessive
• dominant
  trait
• dominant

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.

• trait
• gene
• chromosome

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A trait that is located on the X chromosome is called

• Multiple alleles

• Codominance

• Polygenic Inheritance

• X-linked traits

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

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NGSS.HS-LS4-3