Genetics Vocabulary Quiz

What is an acquired trait?

• A characteristic that is passed down from parents to offspring.

• A quality or characteristic of a living thing.

• A group of individuals born around the same time and have common characteristics.

• A characteristic that a living thing learns or develops over time.

The combination of genes for one or more specific traits; the actual genetic makeup (Ex: TT, Tt, tt)

• Dominant

• Phenotype

• Recessive

• Genotype

When an organism inherits two different genes for a trait, one dominant allele and one recessive allele [sometimes called “hybrid”]

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• phenotype

• genotype

Who is considered the Father of Genetics?

• Gregor Monk

• Gregor Mendel

• Theodore Schwann

• Gregory Peck

What is an inherited trait?

• A characteristic that is learned or developed over time.

• A group of individuals born around the same time and have common interests.

• A way in which a living thing acts or responds to its surroundings.

• A characteristic that is passed down from parents to offspring

This type of allele is represented by a capital letter and it controls the trait that always shows up in an organism.

• recessive allele

• reproductive allele

• sex chromosome

• dominant allele

When an organism inherits two dominant or two recessive alleles [sometimes called “pure”] (TT, tt)

• phenotype

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• genotype

Structures that contain all of the genetic information of an organism and are made of bundled DNA. 23 are given from each parent, making you have 46 in all.

• Genes

• DNA

• Chromosomes

• Variation

The set of observable characteristics of an individual

• Inherited Trait

• Acquired Trait

• Phenotype

• Genotype

The process of passing certain characteristics from parent to offspring. (You have your mother's nose and eyes.)

• Ancestry

• Reproduction

• Heredity

• Population