Punnett square vocabulary

Characteristics that are passed on from one living to its offspring (children).

• genetics

• traits

• dominant

• recessive

the physical make-up of an organism

• genotype

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• phenotype

Combination of two different alleles (heterozygous).

• homozygous

• recessive

• hybrid

• heredity

The study of heredity and how traits are inherited.

• Biology

• Botany

• Genetics

• Physiology

The genetic make-up of an organism

• trait

• gene

• genotype

• allele

A tool used to determine the probable genotypes of offspring (children) of two parents

• Dihybrid cross

• Codon Chart

• Punnett square

• Monohybrid cross

Father of genetics

• Thompson

• Mendel

• Washington

• Leewenhoek

Section of chromosomes that determines a trait

• gene

• genotype

• phenotype

• recessive

An allele that is masked/hidden by another is ___. It is written using a lower case letter.

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Dominant

• Recessive

All the forms of a gene for any given trait

• Hybrid

• Alleles

• Genetics

• Heterozygous