Genetic Terminology

1. The genetic makeup of an organism
5. This field focuses on a species as a whole and how their genetic makeup is affected by geographic factors
7. Organism: Organisms whose traits make them valuable to scientists
10. When an organism has two different alleles it is?
11. Basic unit of hereditary
12. The location of a gene within a chromosome
13. When an organism has two copies of the same allele it is?
14. This trait can be expressed whether the genotype is homozygous or heterozygous

2. The observable traits of an organism
3. Different forms of a gene
4. This trait is only expressed when the genotype is homozygous
6. This field of genetics focuses on the traits passed down from generation to generation
8. Offspring at the same stage of decent who share a common ancestor can be referred to as a?
9. This field focuses on the chemical makeup of genes
11. The Father of Genetics