Biology Intro to Genetics

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• Homozygous Recessive

• Homozygous Dominant

• Heterozygous

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These are the observable characteristics of an organism that are passed on from one generation to the next.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Traits

• Genes

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What is the study of heredity known as?

• Genetics

• Biology

• Physics

• Earth Science

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Janet ______ her hair color from her mom and dad.

• inherited

• traited

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Biologists have explored a lot with genetics, and in doing so have discovered which ______ are linked to certain genetic disorders.

• jeans

• genes

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When an organism has even just one _______ allele present in its genotype, then that organism is going to have the _______ phenotype.

• Recessive

• Dominant

An organism that has one dominant allele and one recessive allele is said to be _________ .

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

This is what?

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Genes

• DNA

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This is what?

• Genes

• Traits

• DNA

• Inheritance

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Small segments of DNA that carry the instructions for the traits organisms have

• Genes

• Chromosomes

• Alleles

• Adenine

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