Genetics Unit Vocabulary Words

*All words must be handwritten, numbered, and underlined.

*If you cannot find a word in the glossary of your book, look in the index, look in your notes, or look it up in a dictionary.

 

Genetics Unit (34 words)

1. Heredity

2. genetics

3. monohybrid cross

4. P generation

5. F1 generation

6. F2 generation

7. allele

8. dominant

9. recessive

10. homozygous

11. heterozygous

12. genotype

13. phenotype

14. law of segregation

15. law of independent assortment

16. Punnett square

17. probability

18. pedigree

19. sex-linked trait

20. incomplete dominance

21. co-dominance

22. multiple alleles

23. diploid

24. haploid

25. gamete

26. zygote

27. autosome

28. sex chromosome

29. karyotype

30. meiosis

31. Down’s Syndrome

32. mutation

33. nondisjunction

34. trisomy