heredity

Question 1

Heredity

Answer 1

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring

Question 2

Dominant Trait

Answer 2

the trait observed in the first generation when parents

that have different are bred

Question 3

DNA

Answer 3

a molecule that is present in living cells and that contains the info

Question 4

Genes

Answer 4

one set of instructions for an inherted trait

Question 5

Alleles

Answer 5

one of the alternative forms of a gene that goverens a

characteristic such as hair color

Question 6

Phenotype

Answer 6

. an organism’s apprence or other detectible charastic

Question 7

Genotype

Answer 7

.the entire gentic makeup of an organism

Question 8

Probability

Answer 8

.the likely hood that a possible future event will occer

Question 9

Homologous chromosomes

Answer 9

.chromosomes that have the same squence of genes and structer

Question 10

Meiosis

Answer 10

.a process in cell division during which the number of chromosomes decreases to half the orginal number by 2 divisions of the nuclues which results in the prodition in sex cells

Question 11

Sex chromosomes

Answer 11

.one pair of chromomes that determine the sex of an indival

Question 12

Pedigree

Answer 12

.a digagram that shows the occerance of an genetic

in several generations of the family

Question 13

Recessive Trait

Answer 13

.a trait that is opperant only when 2 recisive alleles for the same charists are inherided

Question 14

Nucleotide

Answer 14

.in a nucleic-acid chain, a subunit that consists of a suger, a phsphate, and a nitrogenous base

Question 15

RNA

Answer 15

.a molecule that is present in all living cells and that plays a role in protein production

Question 16

Mutations

Answer 16

.a change in the nucleotde-base sequence of a gene

DNA molecure