Basic Patterns of Human Inheritance

______________ is a diagram that can be used to predict the genotypes and phenotypes resulting from a genetic cross.

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Genes are ...

• That is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• Segment of DNA on chromosome that control a trait or characteristic

• A number of how an event occur

• An organism that has two different alleles for a trait

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Dominant alleles are alleles whose trait ......... shows up when the alleles is present.

• always

• never

• sometimes

• usually

Different forms of a gene

• Punnett square

• Gene

• Allele

• Homozygous

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Alleles that are hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• Dominant alleles

• Recessive alleles

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

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HEREDITY is the passing of physical characteristic from ___________ to _________.

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What is HOMOZYGOUS?

• AA or aa

• Aa

• Organism that has identical alleles for a trait

• Organism that has two different alleles for a trait

An organism's genetic makeup or alleles.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

What type of inheritance do two alleles have if their traits blend together? 

• Incomplete Dominance

• Co-Dominance

• Mendelian Inheritance

• Homozygous Inheritance

Look at the picture.
Eye color.

• inherited

• acquired

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