Vocabulary Practice
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The likelihood or odds that a particular event or outcome will occur | Probability
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| The scientific study of heredity | Genetics
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| A chart used by scientists to show all the possible allele combinations that can result from a genetic cross | Punnett Square
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| An organism's physical appearance or visible traits (the way it looks), such as hair color or height | Phenotype
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| An organism's genetic makeup or allele combinations and identified with letter combinations such as TT, Tt, and tt | Genotype
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| Classification for having two identical alleles for a specific trait such as tt or TT | Homozygous
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| Classification for having two different alleles for a specific trait such as Tt | Heterozygous
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| Characteristics, such as skin color and eye shape, that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes | Trait
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| An allele that is masked when paired with a dominant allele and is identified with lower case letters such as t | Recessive Allele
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| An organism that has identical alleles or is homozygous for a particular trait and always produces the same trait in the offspring | Purebred
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| An organism that has two different alleles or is heterozygous for a particular trait | Hybrid
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| The passing of traits, such as eye and hair color, from parents to offspring | Heredity
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| A segment or particular part of DNA found on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait | Gene
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| An allele whose trait always shows up in organisms when the allele is present and is identified as a capital letter such as T | Dominant Allele
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| Different forms of a gene and is identified by upper and lower case letters such as T and t | Alleles
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