Heredity, the biological process of passing genetic instructions, traits, and characteristics from parents to their offspring, Genetics, The study of how traits are passed form parents to offspring., Dominant Trait, This trait is represented by a capital letter, Recessive trait, Represented by a lowercase, often not seen, Gene, A section of DNA on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait., Allele, A different from of gene, Genotype, The alleles of all the geneso an organism chromosomes control organisms phenotype., Phenotype, How a trait appears or is expressed., Heterozygous, A genotype in wich the two alleles of a gene are different., Homozygous, A genotype in wich the two alleles of a gene are the same., Punnett Square, A model that is used to show the probability of all the possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring., pedigree, A tool to show inherited traits.

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