Chapter 5 Vocab

Question 1

Different forms of a trait make up a gene pair are called blank

Answer 1

Alleles

Question 2

Study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles

Answer 2

Genetics

Question 3

New plants are blank because they received different genetic information or different alleles for a trait from each parent

Answer 3

Hybris

Question 4

Cover up

Answer 4

Dominant

Question 5

Form that seemed to disappear the blank factor

Answer 5

Recessive

Question 6

A handy tool to predict results in Mendelian genetics

Answer 6

Punnet square

Question 7

Genetic makeup of organism

Answer 7

Genotype

Question 8

The way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype is its blank

Answer 8

Phenotype

Question 9

An organism with two alleles that are the same is called blank

Answer 9

Homozygous

Question 10

An organism with two different alleles is called

Answer 10

Heterozygous

Question 11

When the offspring of two homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype this inheritance is called

Answer 11

Incomplete dominance

Question 12

When a group of gene pairs act together to produce a trait

Answer 12

Polygenic inheritance

Question 13

An alleles on a sex chromosome

Answer 13

Sex linked gene

Question 14

Scientists are experimenting with biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of a DNA that makes up a gene

Answer 14

Genetic engineering

Question 15

Passing of traits from parent to offspring

Answer 15

Heredity