Genetics Vocabulary Review

3. Term that describes two identical alleles.
4. When breeders cross two genetically different individuals.
6. This is an organism’s physical appearance or its visible traits.
7. The creation of an organism that has exactly the same genes as the organism from which it was produced.
8. The genetic makeup of an organism.
11. All of the DNA in one cell of an organism.
12. The different characteristics one acquires from their parents are called __________.
13. These always produce offspring with the same trait as the parent.
14. To select organisms with desired traits to be parents of the next generation.
16. This is the term for when a female contributes one factor, while the male contributes the other factor.
19. The passing of traits from parents to offspring
21. A cross between two organisms that have similar characteristics.

1. This type of allele is covered up when the dominant allele is with it and is less common.
2. This is the name for an organism with two different alleles.
3. Term that describes two different alleles.
4. ___________'s goal is to identify the DNA sequence of every possible gene in the human genome.
5. Only ___________ will have the exact same DNA fingerprint.
9. A diagram that is used to predict the outcome of a particular cross.
10. Priest in Vienna, The Father of Modern Genetics
15. The trait that shows and is more common.
17. This is the likelihood that a particular event will occur.
18. A relationship among alleles where both alleles contribute to the phenotype of the heterozygote.
20. The factors that control traits are called __________.