Genetic Expression

Segments of DNA are called _______________________

• Genes

• Alleles

• Traits

• Chromosomes

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Which of the following is the correct definition for a genotype?

• The physical expression of a gene. (Characteristics)

• A strand of DNA made up of multiple mutations.

• The expression of one of your parents traits.

• The set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait.

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Alternative forms of a gene are called

• Alleles

• Homozygous

• DNA

• Genetics

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The traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material called

• meiosis

• recessive traits

• genes

• heredity

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______ is the set of genes possessed by someone

• Karyotype

• Fingerprint

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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Chromosomes are made of

• DNA

• RNT

• WWE

• DMA

The basic unit of heredity that consists of a segment of DNA on a chromosome

• chromosome

• double helix

• homozygous

• gene

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One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

• alleles

• DNA

• dominant gene

• inherited

a gene whose expression can be hidden

• recessive gene

• dominant gene

a gene that can hide the effect of a recessive gene

• dominant gene

• recessive gene