Science

Question 1

heredity

Answer 1

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring

Question 2

dominate 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 appears in the second generation after dis spearing in the first generation when parents with different traits are bred

Question 4

gene

Answer 4

one set of instructions fro an inherited trait

Question 5

allele

Answer 5

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

Question 6

phenotype

Answer 6

an organisms appearance or other detectable chars tic

Question 7

genotype

Answer 7

the entire genetic makeup of an organism

Question 8

proballity

Answer 8

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

Question 9

homologous chromes

Answer 9

chromosomes that have that sequence of genes and the same structure

Question 10

meiosis

Answer 10

a process in cell division during which the number of chromes decreases to half

Question 11

sex chrosome

Answer 11

one of the pairs of chromosome that determine the sex of an individual

Question 12

pedigree

Answer 12

a diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family