Reading: Monohybrid Crosses and Punnett Squares

Vocabulary

Heterozygous: an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene

Monohybrid: a hybrid between two species that only have a difference of one gene

Punnett Square: a graphical representation used to determine the probability of an offspring expressing a particular genotype

Homozygous: an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele