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Vocabulary Review
GENETICS
1
Study of how characteristics
are transmitted from parent
to offspring
GENETICS
2
The father of genetics
GREGOR MENDEL
3
Physical feature determined
by the genotype
PHENOTYPE
4
Plant used by Mendel for his
hereditary studies
GARDEN PEAS
5
Transmission of
characteristics from parent
to offspring
HEREDITY
6
A genetically determined
characteristic
TRAIT
7
Stronger of two alleles that
shows up most often
DOMINANT
8
Having identical alleles (AA or
aa)
HOMOZYGOUS
9
Another term for a
heterozygous genotype
HYBRID
10
Law stating that a pair of
alleles will separate whenever
gametes are formed
LAW OF
SEGREGATION
11
A genotype having one
dominant and one recessive
allele
HETEROZYGOUS
12
Law stating that alleles
separate independently of
each other when sperm and
eggs are formed
LAW OF INDEPENDENT
ASSORTMENT
13
Two forms of a gene
ALLELES
14
Instructions on DNA that
code for specific proteins or
traits
GENES
15
The weaker of two alleles in a
pair that is often masked by
the dominant allele
RECESSIVE
16
Gene combination in the
offspring
GENOTYPE
17
Dominance that occurs
whenever both alleles for a
trait are expressed
CODOMINANCE
18
Type of letter used to
represent a dominant allele
CAPITAL
19
The likelihood that an event
will occur like tossing heads
or tails on a coin
PROBABILITY
20
Cross involving two traits
DIHYBRID
21
Dominance that occurs
whenever the hybrid genotype
produces a new, intermediate
phenotype
INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE
22
Used to solve genetics
problems
PUNNETT SQUARE
23
Genetic cross involving a
single trait
MONOHYBRID
24
Type of dominance in which
the dominant allele is always
expressed
COMPLETE
DOMINANCE
25