Genetics Unit 3 Vocabulary

Match the following

• segments of DNA that carry hereditary instructions

• Genes

• same as homozygous; 2 of the same alleles for a gene

• Gregor Mendel

• 2 of the same alleles

• Heterozygous

• 2 different alleles

• Purebred

• Father of Genetics

• Homozygous

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Dominant Alleles are ones whose traits ___________ __________ ______ in the organism when the allele is present; written in _____________ letters.

Recessive alleles are written with?

• all answers shown

• always show up

• lower case letters

• capital letters

Match the following

• two parents whose genetic material combined to produce a new organism different than themselves

• Phenotype

• genetic makeup; Bb

• Carrier

• physical appearance; blue eyes

• Gentotype

• the different types or forms of a gene

• Sexual Reproduction

• a person who has one recessive allele for a trait and one dominant trait; also called heterozygous

• Alleles

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called?

• Hybrid

• DNA

• genetics

• heredity

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The scientific process in which DNA is separated from an organism, changed and then reinserted; manipulation

• Fertilization

• Genetic engineering

• Probability

• Incomplete Dominance

What is DNA?

• deoxyribonucleic acid

• genetic material found in all living things

• contains instructions for making an organism

• ALL answers

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Sperm and egg combine during sexual reproduction to form a zygote.

• ALL answers

• Fertilization

• Meiosis

• Zygote

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

These x shaped physical structures found inside the nucleus contains the cell's genetic material; is compacted DNA; genes are wrapped around then; 46 total

• sex-linked traits

• purebred

• zygote

• chromosomes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Budding, Binary Fission and Regeneration are all forms of?

• Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction

• None

• ALL

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2