Guided Notes

What is a trait?
a distinguishing _______________ or ___________,
especially of one's personal nature .
What are genes?
a unit of ____________ that is transferred from a
parent to offspring and is held to determine
some characteristic of the offspring.
What is a dominant trait?
relating to or denoting heritable characteristics
that are controlled by __________ that are
expressed in offspring even when inherited
from only ______ __________.
What is a recessive trait?
relating to or denoting heritable characteristics
controlled by genes that are expressed in
offspring only when inherited from ________
__________, i.e., when not masked by a
dominant characteristic inherited from one
parent.
What is a characteristic?
a ________ or ________ belonging typically to a
person, place, or thing and serving to identify it