Chapter 11 Vocab

Question 1

Individual who is heterozygous for a recessive disorder

Answer 1

Carrier

Question 2

Diagram that traces the inheritance of a particular trait through several generations

Answer 2

Pedigree

Question 3

Where the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate phenotype between two homozygous phenotypes

Answer 3

Incomplete Dominance

Question 4

When both alleles are expressed in the heterozygous condition

Answer 4

Codominance

Question 5

Some forms of inheritance determined by more than two alleles

Answer 5

Multiple Alleles

Question 6

Result of one allele hiding the effects of another allele

Answer 6

Epistasis

Question 7

Chromosomes that determine an individual’s gender

Answer 7

Sex Chromosomes

Question 8

22 pairs of chromosomes that don’t determine the gender of the offspring

Answer 8

Autosomes

Question 9

Traits controlled by genes located on the X chromosome

Answer 9

Sex-Linked Traits

Question 10

Traits that arise from the interaction of multiple pairs of genes

Answer 10

Polygenic Traits

Question 11

Pairs of homologous chromosomes are arranged in decreasing size to produce a micrograph

Answer 11

Karyotype

Question 12

Protective caps on chromosomes

Answer 12

Telomeres

Question 13

Cell division during which sister chromatids fail to separate properly

Answer 13

Nondisjunction

Question 14

Gen/(e)(o)

Answer 14

Kind

Question 15

Heter/o

Answer 15

Different

Question 16

Meta

Answer 16

After

Question 17

Morph/o

Answer 17

Form

Question 18

Ov

Answer 18

An egg

Question 19

Pro

Answer 19

Before

Question 20

Tel/o

Answer 20

End

Question 21

Zygous

Answer 21

two joined