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This document is a matching worksheet that pairs genetic terms with their definitions. Students are asked to match 21 genetic terms in the first column with their explanations in the second column. The terms include concepts like heredity, genetics, alleles, dominance, homozygous, heterozygous, genotype, phenotype, Punnett squares, and generations of genetic crosses.

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Matching Worksheet

This document is a matching worksheet that pairs genetic terms with their definitions. Students are asked to match 21 genetic terms in the first column with their explanations in the second column. The terms include concepts like heredity, genetics, alleles, dominance, homozygous, heterozygous, genotype, phenotype, Punnett squares, and generations of genetic crosses.

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Matching Worksheet Name:__________________

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

1)diagram used by biologists to predict the outcome of a genetic


_____ heredity
cross

_____ genetics 2)refers to an individual with two different alleles for a trait

monohybrid 3)condition in which both alleles for a gene are expressed when
_____
breeding present

_____ true-breeding 4)refers to an individual with two identical alleles for a trait

_____ allele 5)an alternative form of a gene

6)condition in which a trait in an individual is intermediate


_____ dominant
between the phenotype of its two parents

7)the offspring from crosses among individuals of the F1


_____ recessive
generation

_____ homozygous 8)the first two individuals that mate in a genetic cross

_____ heterozygous 9)characteristic of an organism that is influenced by several genes

10)genetic trait that is expressed when it's allele is homozygous or


_____ genotype
heterozygous

11)genetic trait that is not expressed when the contrasting form of


_____ phenotype
the trait is present

12)a genetic cross of an individual whose phenotype is dominant


_____ punnet square
but whose genotype is unknown

_____ test cross 13)study of heredity

_____ probility 14)the existence of more than two alleles

_____ codominance 15)displaying only one form of a particular trait in offspring


_____ multiple alleles 16)cross involving one pair of contrasting traits

17)the first offspring from a cross of two varieties in the


_____ polygenic trait
parental(P) generation

_____ P generation 18)transmission of genetic traits from parent to offspring

_____ F1 generation 19)the likelihood that a specific event will occur

_____ F2 generation 20)observable characteristics of an organism

incomplete 21)the geneic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of


_____
dominance alleles

Answer Key:
18 - heredity
13 - genetics
16 - monohybrid breeding
15 - true-breeding
5 - allele
10 - dominant
11 - recessive
4 - homozygous
2 - hetrozygous
21 - genotype
20 - phenotype
1 - punnet square
12 - test cross
19 - probility
3 - codominance
14 - multiple alleles
9 - polygenic trait
8 - P generation
17 - F1 generation
7 - F2 generation
6 - incomplete dominance

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