Understanding Inheritance

What is the term for the genetic material inherited from the father?

• Maternal

• Paternal

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is the term used to describe a variation of a gene?

• Genotype

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Chromosome

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Which term refers to the genetic makeup of an organism?

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Allele

• Trait

What is the observable, physical characteristic or trait of an organism called?

• Genotype

• Allele

• Phenotype

• Gene

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Which term describes an organism with two different alleles for a particular trait?

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

What is the term for an allele that is only expressed in the phenotype when two copies are present?

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt

• Tt

• Bb

• TT

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

In the Punnett square, what are the genotypes

• Bb, bb

• Brown, white

• 1:1

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

In the punnett square shown, what must the genotype of the missing parent be?

• BB

• Bb

• bb

• Tt

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2