Vocabulary 1
A genotype for a trait in which the alleles are different.
What is heterozygous?
A form of a trait that overpowers or masks the other.
What is dominant?
This is represented by a horizontal line.
What is a mating?
This is represented by vertical lines.
What is a square?
A genotype for a trait in which alleles are the same.
What is homozygous?
The genetic makeup of an individual.
One parent is affected and usually has an affected child.
What is a dominant trait?
The key includes just letters.
What is an Autosomal Trait?
What are alleles?
A form of a trait that is not expressed when the dominant form is present.
What is recessive?
Carriers are present in the pedigree.
What is a recessive trait?
The key includes X's and Y's and letters.
What is X-linked?
This method is used to figure out different gamete combinations when completing a dihybrid cross.
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
The physical appearance of a trait in an organism.
What is phenotype?
What is an Autosomal trait?
What is a circle?
A cross among one pair of contrasting traits.
What is a monohybrid cross?
Mendel's law in which the two alleles for a trait separate when gametes are formed.
What is Law of Segregation?
Mendel's law in which the alleles of different genes separate independently of one another during gamete formation.
What is an X-linked trait?
Only this type of trait has female carriers.
What is X-linked Recessive?
What is by generation and by individual?