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This 21-card flashcard set covers core genetics and heredity concepts including alleles, dominant and recessive traits, Mendel's experiments, Punnett squares, and the distinction between genotype and phenotype. The terms include test-review questions aligned with textbook references. Use it for test preparation or concept review in a middle school life science or genetics unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Biology
Grade Level:
7th – 9th Grades
Updated February 2025

Terms in This Set

  • How can you determine an organism's phenotype?
  • What did Gregor Mendel use for his genetics experiments? (p.77)
  • What are genes? (p.79)
  • What does it mean when an organism has a hybrid genome?
  • What does is mean when an organism has a purebred genome?
  • How are dominant alleles represented to scientists?
  • How is a heterozygous alleles shown for scientists?
  • What is probability? (p. 84)
  • What shows all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross?
  • What is a genotype? (p. 88)
  • What is a phenotype? (p. 88)
  • What is it called when chromosome pairs separate and are distributed into new sex cells?
  • When sex cells combine to produce offspring, each sex cell will contribute how many of the chromosomes?
  • What are traits? (p. 76)
  • What are alleles? (p. 79)
  • What determines genetic code? (p. 98)
  • The science of heredity is called...(p. 76)
  • Which type of allele is hidden in a phenome?
  • How are recessive genes represented to scientists?
  • What is a Punnett square used for?
  • If an organism has two dominant or two recessive alleles for a trait, it is ....

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