Chapter 3 (book 2)

Question 1

What is the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring?

Answer 1

heredity

Question 2

What is the trait observed in the first generation?

Answer 2

dominant traits

Question 3

What is a trait observed in the second generation?

Answer 3

recessive traits

Question 4

What is one set of instructions for inherit traits?

Answer 4

genes

Question 5

What is one of the alternative forms of a gene?

Answer 5

an allele

Question 6

What is an organism’s appearance or characteristic?

Answer 6

phenotype

Question 7

What is the entire genetic makeup of an organism?

Answer 7

a genotype

Question 8

What is the likely hood of something happening mathematically?

Answer 8

probability

Question 9

What is a chromosome that has the same sequence of genes?

Answer 9

homologous chromosomes

Question 10

What is the process of a cell splitting?

Answer 10

meiosis

Question 11

What is one pair of the chromosomes that determine the sex of a child?

Answer 11

sex cromosomes

Question 12

What is a diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family?

Answer 12

pedigree