SCIENCE CH.5 Vocabulary

when alleles or one gene are different, one is dominant, and one is recessive, meaning the dominant one will be expressed and the other will be hidden.

• incomplete dominance

• law of independent assortment

• law of dominance

• law of segregation

the way alleles separate and recombine is independent of other genes.

• law of dominance

• law of heredity

• law of segregation

• law of independent assortment

alleles split during sex cell formation and randomly pair up during fertilization having one allele for a gene from each parent.

• law of independent assortment

• law of dominance

• law of transcription

• law of segregation

the passing of traits from parent to offspring

• genetics

• heredity

• polygenic inheritance

• incomplete dominance

the study of passing traits from parent to offspring

• heredity

• mutation

• genetics

• replication

a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• incomplete dominance

• homozygous

a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• phenotype

• genotype

how the trait appears

• genotype

• homozygous

• phenotype

• heterozygous

the two alleles that control the phenotype of the trait

• phenotype

• mutation

• RNA

• genotype

when the two alleles of the gene are the same

• homozygous

• polygenic inheritance

• genotype

• heterozygous