B6—Introduction to Heredity

2. Recessive genes are shown by ___ letters in Punnett Squares.
4. The idea that an offspring receives one unit of inheritance from each parent is the called the "theory of ___________________."
6. A specific section of DNA is referred to as a ___.
11. A ___ is used to predict the genetic and trait outcomes for a specific set of parents.
12. According to the Central Dogma of Protein Synthesis, an amino acid chain (which ultimately becomes a protein) is created from mRNA through the process of ___.
14. A genotype which contains two of the same alleles is referred to as ___.
15. A ___ is the specific combination of alleles for a certain trait.
17. ___ is when certain traits are passed from the parents to the children.

1. A genotype which contains different alleles is referred to as ___.
3. Different forms of the same gene.
5. ___ is another term for homozygous.
7. Dominant genes are shown by ___ letters in Punnett Squares.
8. According to the Central Dogma of Protein Synthesis, ___ is created from DNA.
9. Heredity is passed through genes in the ___ molecule.
10. The trait of physical expression of a certain set of alleles is referred to as a ___.
13. In biology the study of heredity is called ___.
14. ___ is another term for heterozygous.
16. ___ refers to characteristics such as eye color, height, and athletic ability.