Unit 5: Inheritance of Traits Vocabulary Practice

The passing of traits from parent to offspring.

An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.

An organism's genetic makeup or allele combination.

A tool that helps to show all possible combinations of alleles in a cross of parents with known genotypes in order to predict the probability of their offspring possessing certain sets of alleles.

An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.

A number that describes how likely it is that a particular event will occur.

An organism's physical appearance or visible traits.

A threadlike structure within a cell's nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next.

The second state of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell.

The structure formed when a chromosome divides during mitosis and meiosis.