Inheritance
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. Inheritance
A. A female parent.
2. Mitosis
B. The male reproductive cell
3. Genetics
C. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
4. Cytosine
D. A long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like
5. Meiosis
E. Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes
6. Offspring
F. An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell (plural)
7. Guanine
G. Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci
8. Homozygous
H. The immediate descendants of a person
9. Fertilisation
I. Understatement for rhetorical effect
10. Thymine
J. A base found in DNA and derived from pyrimidine
11. Heterozygous
K. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
12. Sperm
L. A purine base found in DNA and RNA
13. Mother
M. A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine
14. Egg
N. Center of an atom or a cell
15. DNA
O. An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
16. Father
P. A long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell
17. Nucleus
Q. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
18. Ribosomes
R. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective
19. Dominant
S. The fifth note of the diatonic scale
20. RNA
T. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci
21. Recessive
U. The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms