Traits And Inheritance

Question 1

What are genes?

Answer 1

The set of instructions for an inherited trait

Question 2

What is an allele?

Answer 2

One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color

Question 3

What is a dominant allele?

Answer 3

A dominant allele will influence how a trait will look, even if there is only one dominant allele. They are represented by capital letters

Question 4

What is a recessive allele?

Answer 4

A recessive allele will only influence how a trait will look if both alleles are recessive. If only one allele is recessive it’s trait can disappear.they are represented by lower case letters

Question 5

What is a phenotype?

Answer 5

An organism appearance or other detectable characteristics.

Think phenotype-photograph

Question 6

What is a genotype?

Answer 6

A entire genetic makeup of an organism; also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits (think:genotype- genes within)

Question 7

What does homozygous mean?

Answer 7

It means that both alleles are dominant or both are recessive.
Ex:BB or bb

Question 8

What does heterozygous mean?

Answer 8

It means that one allele is dominant and one is recessive.Ex-Bb

A heterozygous genotype will display the dominant phenotype.