heredity

Question 1

The passing of genitic traits from parent to offspring

Answer 1

Heredity

Question 2

The trait observed in the first genration when parents that have different traits are bred

Answer 2

Dominant trait

Question 3

a trait that reappears in the secoond generation after diappeaing in the first genration when parents with different traits are bred

Answer 3

recessive trait

Question 4

one set of instructions for an inherited trait

Answer 4

gene

Question 5

one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a charcteristic such as hair color

Answer 5

allele

Question 6

anoraganism apperance or other detactable charateristic

Answer 6

phenotype

Question 7

the entire genetic makeup of an organism also the combination of genes for one or more specofic traits

Answer 7

genotype

Question 8

the likelihood that a possible event will occur in any given instance of the event

Answer 8

probabillity

Question 9

a process in cell division during which the number of chromosomos decreases to half the original number by teo divisons of the nucleus which results in the prosuction of sex cells

Answer 9

Meiosis

Question 10

one of the pair of chromosomos that determines the sex of an idividual

Answer 10

sex chromosomos

Question 11

a diegram that shows the occurrence of the gentic trai in several genrations of a family

Answer 11

pedigree

Question 12

DNA a moclecule that is present in all living cells and that contains th information that determines th traits that a living thing inherits and needs to live

Answer 12

DNA

Question 13

in a nucleic-acid chain a subnit that constists of a sugar a phosphate and a nitrogenous base

Answer 13

nucleotide

Question 14

a change in the nucleotide-base sequence of a gene or DNA molecule

Answer 14

mutations

Question 15

RNA that is present in all living cells and that plays a role in protein production

Answer 15

RNA