2.) The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring or from one generation to the next is called ___.

3.) What type of genetic information is passed from parent to offspring?

4.) Name the type of reproduction that allows genetic information to be passed from parent to offspring?

5.) List the two types of sex cells.

6.) List two examples of organisms that have sperm and egg as sex cells.

7.) How much genetic material does the sex cell (sperm) carry? How about the sex cell (egg)?

8.) The structure found in the nucleus of a cell that contains the genetic information (DNA) is the ____.

9.) What does DNA stand for?

10.) When DNA coils, what does it form?

11.) Long strands of DNA make up _____?

12.) A segment “part” of DNA found on a chromosome that contributes to the inheritance of a particular trait is called ___.

13.) What is responsible for the inherited characteristics that distinguish one individual from another?

14.) Genes that contribute to a specific trait normally come in pairs. What is one gene from the pair of genes called?

15.) Genes may be considered in two different ways:What is the set of genes carried by the organism?What is the physical expression “what you see“ of the genes?

16.) Characteristics that are passed from parent to offspring are called ______.

17.) Pick one example of a inherited trait.

18.) Which one is the version of a trait that will be expressed regardless of the other allele(s) that is(are) present?

19.) How are alleles for dominant traits represented or written?

20.) How are alleles for recessive traits represented or written?

21.) Which one means that the offspring has one copy of the dominant allele (trait) and one copy of the recessive allele (trait)?

22.) What is the name given to two copies of the dominant allele?

23.) What is the name given to two copies of the recessive allele?