Ch 6

Question 0

Genetics

Answer 0

The study of genes

Question 1

Trait

Answer 1

A characteristic that is inherited

Question 2

Purebread

Answer 2

A flower line that has self pollinated itself for years and has no other traits but itself in it

Question 3

cross

Answer 3

mating of two organisms

Question 4

Law of segregation

Answer 4

Organisms inherit two copies of each gene, one from each parent

Question 5

gene

Answer 5

a piece of DNA to provide instructions for to body

Question 6

Allele

Answer 6

Any alternative forms of a gene

Question 7

homozygous

Answer 7

two of the same alleles at a specific locus

Question 8

heterozygous

Answer 8

two different alleles at the same locus

Question 9

Genome

Answer 9

the material that a organism is made of

Question 10

Genotype

Answer 10

Any specific type of genes

Question 11

Phenotype

Answer 11

Physical characteristics in a in an individual organism

Question 12

Dominant Allele

Answer 12

The more common and powerful allele in an organism

Question 13

Recessive

Answer 13

An allele that is expressed only two of them are present

Question 14

Punnet square

Answer 14

A grid system that predicts traits of an organism

Question 15

Monohybrid cross

Answer 15

The inheritance of only one specific trait

Question 16

test cross

Answer 16

A cross between organisms that their genotypes are not known

Question 17

dihybrid cross

Answer 17

A cross between two different traits

Question 18

Law of independent assortment

Answer 18

Alleles pairs that are separate during meiosis or gamete formation

Question 19

Probability

Answer 19

The percent or chance that something will happen