Genetics

Question 1

Is the material that carries all the information about how a living thing will look and function

Answer 1

DNA

Question 2

Contains the DNA codes for all the traits you inherit

Answer 2

Genes

Question 3

The stronger gene (represented with a capital letter).

Answer 3

Dominant Genes

Question 4

The passing down of traits from parent to child

Answer 4

Heredity

Question 5

The female sex cell

Answer 5

Eggs

Question 6

The male sex cell

Answer 6

Sperm

Question 7

The things that make organisms what they are. There are 23 pairs in humans.

Answer 7

Chromosomes

Question 8

The weaker gene (represented with a lowercase letter)

Answer 8

Recessive Genes

Question 9

The traits you receive from your parents

Answer 9

Inherit

Question 10

The young of two parents

Answer 10

Offspring

Question 11

Characteristic or feature of a living thing

Answer 11

Trait

Question 12

A group of people born and living during the same time

Answer 12

Generation

Question 13

One member of a pair in a gene

Answer 13

Allele

Question 14

When you have two of the same alleles (RR or rr

Answer 14

Homogeneous

Question 15

When you have two different alleles (Rr)

Answer 15

Heterozygous

Question 16

What you can see about a trait (ex. Brown Hair)

Answer 16

Phenotype

Question 17

What genes a person or thing has (ex. Rr

Answer 17

Genotype

Question 18

The father of genetics who used pea plants to test his theories

Answer 18

Gregor Mendel