Science Vocabulary

what is the passing of traits from parents of offspring

• genetics

• gene

• heredity

• punnett square

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

what is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• alleles

• dominant trait

• homozygous

• genetics

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

what a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• dominant trait

• phenotype

• heterozygous

• gene

what is a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• heredity

• recessive trait

• genotype

• punnett square

what is a model used to predict possible genotypes or phenotypes of offspring

• punnette square

• genotype

• phenotype

• genetics

what is a section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• genotype

• genetic

• gene

• alleles

what is the different form of a gene

• heredity

• phenotype

• recessive

• alleles

if the two alleles of a gene are different it is called

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant trait

• alleles

is the two alletes of a gene are the same it is called

• homozygous

• genotype

• heterozygous

• phenotype

geneticists call how a trait appears, or is expressed

• punnett square

• phenotype

• genotype

• heredity