Genetics Vocabulary

What is an ancestor?

• A person that someone( ex: me) is descended from.

• A person That descended from Someone.

• A person.

• A pet

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What does this describe?

A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and proteins is found in the nucleus of most living cells.

• Chromosome

• Gene

• Trait

• Nucleus

What is a Descendant

• DNA

• a parent

• A person or thing that descended from a particular ancestor.

• A person that someone( ex: me) is descended from.

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Where is DNA located?

If two identical alleles are inherited, then an organism is ___ for that trait.

• genotype

• phenotype

• homozygous

• heterozygous

Having two alleles that are different.

• Heterozygous

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Homozygous

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The physical appearance of an organism.

• Heredity

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Genotype

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A genetic factor blocked by another genetic factor -- represented by a lowercase letter

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• homozygous

• heterozygous

A trait that overpowers the other trait, the stronger gene.

• Purebred
• Hybrid
• Dominant
• Recessive

The picture shown is an example of ______.

• Similar

• Kind of the Same

• Identical

• Twinsies

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