| A | B |
|---|
| eye color, hair color, shape of face, color of skin, height | inherited traits |
| manners, the way you talk, how to ride a bike, likes and dislike | learned traits |
| an egg and sperm unite and some traits come from each parent | sexual reproduction |
| all the inherited traits come from a single parent | asexual reproduction |
| 2 X chromosomes | female |
| 1 X and 1 Y chromosomes | male |
| humans have ..... | 23 pairs of chomosomes; for at total of 46 |
| Chromosomes (suit case) | contains genes (jeans) |
| dominant gene | represented by a capital letter |
| recessive genes | represented by a lower case letter |
| alleles | The capital and lower case letters that represent dominant and recessive genes |
| phenotype | characteristics that you inheirt that you can see (eye color, height, size of your feet) |
| genotype | all the genes that an organism has |
| punnett ssquare | chart showing how the parents' alleles migh combine in their offspring |
| homozygous | both alleles are the same (HH or hh) |
| heterozygous | the alleles are different (Hh) |
