Module D: Unit 2 - Vocabulary

A change in a gene or chromosome that can be either beneficial, neutral, or harmful to an organism.

• Adaptation

• Mutation

• Recessive

• Dominant

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Building blocks of proteins, there are about 20

• Amino Acids

• Chromosomes

• Proteins

• Traits

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes.

• Trait

• Gene

• Chromosome

• DNA

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

• Offspring

• Chromosome

• Adaptation

• Mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.

• Genotype

• Gene

• Phenotype

• Trait

Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait.

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Genotype

• Phenotype

Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents

• Mutation

• Offspring

• Adaptation

• DNA

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present

• Genotype

• DNA

• Recessive

• Dominant

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

• DNA

• Trait

• Chromosome

• Gene

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait

• Chromosome

• Gene

• DNA

• Trait

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1