HBL Checkpoint: Heredity and Molecular Genetics

A set of traits an organism receives from its parents

• heredity
• DNA
• chromosome
• allele

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The carrier of genetic information

• DNA
• RNA
• phenotype
• nucleus

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Threadlike structures that carry DNA

• allele
• genotype
• chromosome
• phenotype

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Different forms of the same gene

• recessive
• dominant
• alleles
• genes

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A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles from parents

• T-square
• Gene Chart
• Punnett Square
• DNA organizer

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A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring

• heredity
• punnett square
• trait
• phenotype

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the genetic makeup of an organism

• genotype
• phenotype

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How the trait appears or looks like

• genotype
• phenotype

If you cross a white flower (pp) with a purple flower (PP), the possible genotypes of the offspring are

• PP and pp

• All Pp

• All PP

• All pp

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If you crossed a PP (purple) with a pp (white), what would the phenotypes be?

• all white

• all tall

• all purple

• 1/2 white, 1/2 purple

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