Chapter 10.1-10.2 Vocab

Question 1

The study of heredity

Answer 1

Genetics

Question 2

A cross; sperm from the pollen of one flower fertilizes the egg in the flower of a different plant

Answer 2

Cross fertilization

Question 3

The offspring of two different true breeding varieties

Answer 3

Hybrids

Question 4

A pairing in which the parent plants differ in only one (mono) character

Answer 4

Monohybrid cross

Question 5

Alternative forms of genes

Answer 5

Alleles

Question 6

Individual in which the two alleles are the same

Answer 6

Homozygous

Question 7

Individual in which the two alleles are different

Answer 7

Heterozygous

Question 8

When only one of the two different alleles in a heterozygous individual appears to affect the trait

Answer 8

Dominant

Question 9

In allele that does not appear to affect the trait

Answer 9

Recessive

Question 10

Type of diagram that shows all possible outcomes of a genetic cross

Answer 10

Punnets square

Question 11

Observable traits

Answer 11

Phenotype

Question 12

Genetic make up, or combination of alleles

Answer 12

Genotype

Question 13

Breeds in individual of unknown genotype, but dominant phenotype with a homozygous recessive individual

Answer 13

Testcross

Question 14

Crossing organisms differing in 2 characters

Answer 14

Dihybrid cross

Question 15

A variation of a particular character

Answer 15

Trait