Genetics and Heredity

____________ used plants to study the way traits are passed from parent to offspring

• Mendel

• Punnett

• Sutton

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

If you cross a white flower (pp) with a purple flower (PP), the possible genotypes of the offspring are

• PP and pp

• All Pp

• All PP

• All pp

_____________ describes a trait that covers over, or masks another form of that trait.

• recessive

• gene

• allele

• dominant

_________________ describes a trait that is covered over, or masked by another form of that trait.

• dominant

• punnett

• recessive

• gene

Different forms of a gene are called

• alleles

• traits

A ______________ square is a model that helps make genetic predictions.

• Punnett

• Mendel

Two different alleles of the gen for a certain trait

• homozygous

• heterozygous

The study of ____________ is called genetics

• heredity

• dominance

• pea plants

• mutations

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

If you crossed a PP (purple) with a pp (white), what would the phenotypes be?

• all white

• all tall

• all purple

• 1/2 white, 1/2 purple

The organism's appearance is known as its

• heredity

• pedigree

• phenotype

• genotype