Genetics Vocab

2. Another word for heterozygous
6. Another word for homozygous
9. dominance Can occur when neither of the two alleles is completely dominant over the other
10. traits Traits that are not passed down through generations
11. Mistakes in the process that result in things like down syndrome, sickle cell anemia, color blindness, etc.
14. Show their effect with only one copy of the allele
15. Segments of data on a chromosome and are responsible for inherited traits
16. Variants in a gene
18. traits Comes from both parents, so the offspring has a combination of both parents’ genes

1. Found in the nucleus of a cell and carry genes
3. dominant- carries two of the same dominant alleles, recessive- carries two of same recessive alleles
4. The middle, or the powerhouse, of the cell
5. "Father of Modern Genetics"
7. genes are passed down from parent to offspring
8. Carries two different alleles (Bb)
12. The study of heredity, which is a biological process where a parent passes certain genes off to their offspring
13. The physical appearance
15. The actual genetics
17. A diagram used by geneticists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular phenotype
19. Show their effect with two copies of the
20. the carrier of genetic information