Genetics Vocabulary

What Is Heredity?

• The transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring.
• Something to do with genes
• The study of Genetics
• None of the above

What's Genetics?

• None of the Above 
• Characteristics inherited by family
• 100% of a gene or genes 
• The science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.

What's a Dominant Gene?

• None of the Above 
• A gene that is expressed phenotypically in heterozygous or homozygous individuals.
• A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
• The gene with the least power

What's a Recessive Gene?

• The gene with the most power 
• None of the Above
• A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
• The study of Family

What is Genotype?

• The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
• Typing Genes
• A video game on computers 
• The traits you are able to see on a person

What is Phenotype? 

• A game 
• The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment.
• None of the Above
• The study of football

What is Genetic Engineering?

• ?
• the development and application of scientific methods, procedures, and technologies that permit direct manipulation of genetic material in order to alter the hereditary traits of a cell, organism, or population.
• based on genetics 
• A biological procedure to determine criminal whereabouts 

What's Homozygous?

• having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
• Different things an organism can buy 
• The price of something
• A disease 

What is Heterozygous? 

• A cure for a disease 
• A genetic malfunction 
• 1+1=None of the above 
• having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic

What is a punnett square?

• A rectangle 
• None of these 
• in genetics, a type of grid used to show the gametes of each parent and their possible offspring; a type of grid that can indicate all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross; also called checkerboard