heredity

1. another name for a heterozygous organism
4. reproduction when male and female cells combine to form a new cell
7. observable characteristic; physical trait that shows as a result of a particular genotype
9. the passing of traits from parent to offspring
10. organism that always produces the same traits in its offspring
11. the different forms a gene may have for a trait
13. genetic makeup of an organism
14. square chart used to predict results in Mendelian genetics
15. dominance production of a phenotype that is intermediate to those of the two homozygous parents
17. organism with two different alleles for a trait
18. A comparison between two quantitites

2. form of a trait that appears to mask another form of the same trait
3. Mendel father of genetics
5. form of a trait that seems to disappear in a population, but can reappear
6. ratio that states the number of times an outcome is likely out of a possible 100 times
8. basic unit of heredity, made of a segment of DNA on a chromosome
12. organism with two identical alleles for a trait
16. chance that a specific outcome will occur out of total number of outcomes