Genetic Traits

Which of the following traits is encoded in your DNA?

• Your personality

• Your likes and dislikes

• Your intelligence

• Your eye color

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

When the two alleles of a gene are different

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Phenotype

• Genotype

the study of how traits are inherited

• allele

• genetics

• heredity

• probability

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

an organism that has two different alleles for a trait

(Ww)

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• hybrid

• purebred

tool used to determine the possible traits an offspring could inherit

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

• Punnett square

the form a gene may have for a trait (represented by letters)

• allele

• gene

• trait

the different forms that can be inherited

• allele

• gene

• trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

the passing of traits from parent to offspring

• allele

• genetics

• heredity

• probability

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

genetic material that controls the traits that we have

• allele

• gene

• trait

the genetic make-up of an organism for a trait (the two genes that were inherited for a particular trait); it cannot be seen

• genotype

• phenotype