VOCAB #4: Genetics and Heredity I

A genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are different.

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• homologous

• heterozygous

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L.8.2A.3

study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• genotype

• heredity

• phenotype

• genetics

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L.8.2A.2

A genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are the same.

• Homozygous

• heterozygous

• genotype

• dominant trait

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L.8.2A.3

genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• allele

• phenotype

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L.8.2A.3

Model that is used to show the probability of all possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring.

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

• Punnett square

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L.8.2A.3

Genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• gene

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• Punnett square

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L.8.2A.3

Different form of a gene

• allele

• heterozygous

• homologous

• recessive trait

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L.8.2A.3

Section of DNA on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• allele

• dominant trait

• gene

• recessive trait

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L.8.2A.3

The alleles of all the genes on an organism's chromosomes; controls an organism's phenotype.

• dominant trait

• genotype

• recessive

• homozygous

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L.8.2A.3

passing of traits from parents to offspring

• genetics

• imcomplete dominance

• heredity

• mutation

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L.8.2A.2