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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Passing of traits from parent to offspring. | Heredity |
| A different form a gene may have for a trait. | Allele |
| The science of how traits are inherited through alleles passed from one generation to another | Genetics |
| The form of a trait that appears to dominate or mask another form of the same trait. | Dominant |
| The form of a trait that seems to disappear when a dominant trait is present. | Recessive |
| A tool that shows how genes can combine; used to predict the probability of types of offspring. | Punnett square |
| The genetic makeup of an organism for a trait. | Genotype |
| An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait. | Homozygous |
| An organism that has two different alleles for a trait. | Heterozygous |
| A physical trait that shows as a result of an organism’s particular genotype. | Phenotype |
| An allele inherited on a chromosome. | Sex-linked gene |
| A diagram that shows the occurrence of a trait in a family. | Pedigree |
| Biological and chemical methods to change a cell’s DNA sequence to produce desirable traits or eliminate undesirable traits. | Genetic engineering |
| A map of the location of individual genes on every chromosome of an individual. | Genome |