Genetics Vocabulary

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What is a comparison between two quantities often written with a colon as 3:4?

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Ratio

Front

What is an alternate form of a gene for a specific trait or gene product?

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Allele

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What do you call an organism that inherits two of the same alleles from its parents?

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Homozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Front

What is the study of heredity?

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Genetics

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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What is a chart used to show all the ways genes from two parents can combine and be passed to offspring?

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Punnett Square

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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What is the term for the physical appearance of an organism?

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Phenotype

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Front

What is the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype

Front

What type of allele is expressed when present, even if only one copy is inherited?

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Dominant allele

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What type of allele is only expressed when two copies are inherited?

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Recessive allele

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What is the term for different forms of a gene?

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Alleles