Genetics and Heredity Vocabulary

A set of instructions for an inherited trait

• Allele

• Gene

• Trait

• Chromosome

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What is Mendel considered the father of?

• Heredity & Genetics

• Heredity

• Homologous Chromosomes

• Punnett Squares

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An alternative form of a gene.

• Allele

• DNA

• Dominant

• Recessive

The scientific study of heredity

• alleles

• genetics

• chromosomes

• DNA

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A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait

• allele

• genotype

• gene

• homozygous

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Passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Genes

• DNA

• Heredity

• Homozygous

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An organism that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as the parent

• purebred

• hybrid

• variation

• recessive

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a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying DNA (genetic information) in the form of genes

• DNA

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

• heredity

• chromosome

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Homozygous

• an organism that has two identical alleles for a trait

• genetic makeup

• dominant

• heredity

Dominant

• Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait

• genetic makeup

• weak

• An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait