heredity

Question 1

heredity

Answer 1

the passing of genetic traits parents to offspring

Question 2

dominant trait

Answer 2

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

Question 3

recessive trait

Answer 3

a trait that reappears in the second generation after disappears in the first gen when parents with different traits are bred

Question 4

gene

Answer 4

one set of instructions for an inherit trait

Question 5

allele

Answer 5

one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs characteristics

Question 6

phenotype

Answer 6

an organism’s appearance or other detectable characteristics

Question 7

genotype

Answer 7

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

Question 8

meiosis

Answer 8

a process in cell division during which the number of chromosomes decreases to half the original number of by two divisions to the production of sex cells

Question 9

homologous chromosomes

Answer 9

chromosomes that have the same sequence of genes and the same structure

Question 10

sex chromosome

Answer 10

one of the pair of the chromosomes that determinants the sex of of an individual

Question 11

DNA

Answer 11

a molecule that is present in all living things cells and that contains the info that determines the traits that a living thing inherits and needs to live