Heredity Vocab

A characteristic of an organism

• DNA

• Inheritance

• Homozygous

• Trait

The offspring of genetically different parents

• Inheritance

• Hybrid

• Phenotype

• Recessive allele

The physical appearance of an organism

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Trait

• Gene

An allele that is always expressed when it is present

• Trait

• Recessive allele

• Dominant allele

• Hybrid

A diagram that shows the possible offspring of two parents

• Hybrid

• Heredity

• Punnett square

• Gene

The genetic makeup of an organism (FF, Ff, ff)

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

A molecule found in the cell nucleus that encodes genetic information

• Inheritance

• Phenotype

• Punnett square

• DNA

The passage of genetic information from parents to offspring

• Punnett square

• Trait

• Heredity/Inheritance

• DNA

Having two alleles that are the same (FF, ff)

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Recessive allele

• Dominant allele

Having two alleles that are different (Ff)

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous