Genetics Vocabulary

An organism’s genetic information. 

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

An organism’s physical traits or appearance

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

Two identical letters. Either two dominant or two recessive. 

Example - HH or TT

• Phenotype

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Genotypes

Two different letters. One dominant and one recessive.

Example - Tt or Hh

• Genotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Phenotype

A ​ (a)   is a person's physical trait which is coded for by their ​ (b)   or the actual make up of their genes.

• phenotype
• genotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Heterozygous

,

(b) Homozygous

• Tt

• FF

• tt

• Hh

• Aa

• Ff

• aa

• HH

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which phenotype would be produced by the genotype: Hh

• Dominant phenotype

• Recessive Phenotype

Which phenotype would be produced by the genotype: tt

• Dominant phenotype

• Recessive Phenotype

Match the following

• Represented by a capital letter

• Heterozygous

• Represented by a lower case letter

• Homozygous Recessive

• pp

  Two lowercase letters

• Recessive allele

• Pp

  One uppercase and one lowercase

• Homozygous Dominant

• PP

  Two uppercase letters

• Dominant allele