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Genetics vocab.
key terms for genetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call an offspring that received different genetic information from each parent? | Hybrid |
| An organism's genetics makeup. | Genotype |
| The passing of traits from parents to offspring. | Heredity |
| The study of how traits are inherited. | Genetics |
| The observable outward physical appearance of an organism. | Phenotype |
| An organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait (HH or hh) | Homozygous |
| A trait that covers over another form of that trait is | Dominant |
| A trait that is covered over by another form of that trait and seems to disappear is | Recessive |
| An organism with two different alleles for a trait (Hh) | Heterozygous |
| A tool used to predict the probability of certain traits in offspring that shows the different ways alleles can combine is a/an | Punnett Square |
| An alternate form that a gene may have for a single trait which can be dominant or recessive is a/an | Allele |