Recessive and Dominant Traits questions with solutions

Recessive and Dominant Traits
questions with solutions
Trait ✅✅a characteristic - seed color

heredity ✅✅the passing of traits from parents to offspring

genetics ✅✅the study of heredity

purebred (homozygous) ✅✅1. it always produces offspring with the same trait- two
beagles = purebred beagle
2. the same

genes ✅✅factors that are in pairs which control traits

alleles ✅✅the different forms of a gene

dominant allele ✅✅1. always shows up in an organism even when the other allele is
present
2. represented by a capital letter
3. stronger gene

recessive allele ✅✅1. is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present
2. represented by a lower case letter
3. weaker gene

hybrid (heterozygous) ✅✅1. has two different alleles for a trait
2. different

Mendel's principles ✅✅1. traits are passed from one generation to the next
2. Traits are controlled by genes
3. Organisms inherit genes in pairs: one from each parent
4. Some genes are dominant and other are recessive
5. Dominant genes hide recessive genes

genotype ✅✅exact combination of genes - BB, Ee, xx

phenotype ✅✅1. physical trait
2. determined from the organisms genotypes

incomplete dominance ✅✅1. condition where nether gene is neither dominant or
recessive
2. results in "mixing" of traits