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| a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes |
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| the passing of traits from parents to offspring |
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| a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms |
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| an organism that always that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as itself |
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| A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for specific trait |
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| the different forms of a gene |
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| an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
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| an allele that is masked when the dominant allele is present |
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