Heredity

Different versions of the same gene are called

• Jeans

• Editions

• Varieties

• Alleles

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey

• water to rain

• parents to offspring

• fungi to protists

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The passing of physical characteristics, or traits, from parent to offspring.

• Genetics

• Dominant allele

• Heredity

• Recessive allele

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The scientific study of heredity.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Probability

• Pedigree

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The different forms of a gene.

• Genes

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Pedigree

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A trait that is always hidden when the dominant allele is present.

• Phenotype

• Recessive allele

• Genotype

• Heredity

An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.

• Genes

• Heterozygous

• Genotype

• Dominant allele

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What is NOT an inherited trait of humans?

• Favorite type of music

• Freckles

• Hair color

• Height

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Chromosomes are

• Found in the mitochondria

• Made of 20 pairs

• Long strands of DNA that contain many genes

• Bundles of DNA that contain only one gene each

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What can you conclude about Gregor Mendel from the information presented in the video?

• Religious authorities forced him to stop his experiments

• He was one of the first researchers to establish how heredity worked

• He concluded that heredity worked for people as well as plants

• He established all the principles of modern genetics

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