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Genetic Diagrams
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- 1What are alleles?Different versions of the same gene
- 2What are used to represent different alleles?Letters
- 3What is a homozygous?An organism that two of the same alleles for the same gene
- 4What is a heterozygous?An organism with two different alleles for the same gene
- 5What is the name for the allele for the characteristic that is present?The dominant allele
- 6What is the name for the allele for the characteristic that isn't present?The recessive
- 7What is used to represent a dominant allele?a capital letter
- 8What is used to represent a recessive letter?A lower case letter
- 9Which is dominant, blue or brown eyes?Brown eyes
- 10For an organism to display recessive characteristics, what must their alleles be?Both recessive
- 11What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?Genotype is the allele you have. Phenotype is the actual characteristic
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- GCSE Biology (B2b) Flashcards on Genetic Diagrams, created by francesca graham on 07/04/2016.
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