Genetics

the passing of traits from parents to offspring

• heredity

• trait

• phenotype

• allele

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

genetic characteristics that an organism gets from the parent cells

• trait

• phenotype

• allele

• genetics

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

observable trait or appearance. It is determined by the genotype

• phenotype

• allele

• genetics

• recessive allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

different form or version of a gene

• allele

• genetics

• recessive allele

• dominant allele

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

the study of how traits are passed form parents to offspring

• genetics

• gene

• genotype

• heredity

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

the two allele combination. It controls the phenotype of a trait

• genotype

• gene

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

covered up by a dominant gene. Represented by a lower case letter

• recessive allele

• dominant allele

• allele

• trait

blocks or covers up a recessive gene. Represented with an upper case letter

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• allele

• trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

section on a chromosome that has genetic information of one trait

• gene

• genetics

• heredity

• trait

the diagram shows that genes are a section of a chromosome that has genetic information

• true

• false

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-1