Traits and Heredity

A ______ is a distinguishing quality or characteristic of a living thing that is passed down from parent to offspring.

• Inherited Behavior

• Inherited Trait

• Substance

• Inherited Pattern

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Study of biological inheritance?

• Trait

• Gene

• Genetics

• Recessive Gene

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Specific characteristic of an individual?

• Gene

• 
• Opinion

• Genetics

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Passed from parent to offspring?

• Genetics

• Gene

• Trait

• Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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Different forms of a gene?

• Genetics

• Trait

• Allele

• Dominent Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Having two identical alleles for a gene?

• Dominate Allele

• Recessive Allele

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

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Have two different alleles for the same gene?

• Heterozygous

• Trait

• Homozygous

• Dominent Allele

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Genetic makeup of a an organism?

• 
• Allele

• Gene

• Trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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Physical characteristic of an organism?

• Genotype

• Gene

• Phenotype

• Trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Allele that is expressed over another allele

• Dominant Allele

• Gene

• Heterozygous

• Recessive Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2