Genes
What is DNA?
An organism’s genetic materia
What is a mutation?
A change in genetic code
______________ is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
Genetics
The ______________ is what an organism looks like based on its genes.
Phenotype
Mendel worked with Pea Plants because....
They were fast breeding and he could study two traits
What is a gene?
A section on a chromosome that has information for a trait
What kind of trait blocks another trait?
Dominant
______________ is the passing of traits from parents to their offspring.
Heredity
______________ are made of a nitrogen base, sugar, and phosphate group.
Nucleotides
What is a Punnet Square?
Tool used to determine probabilites of having a trait.
Chromosomes are made of:
DNA
A trait that is blocked by a dominant trait.
Recessive
Mendel studied ______________ to learn about genetics.
Pea
______________ is the process of making mRNA from DNA.
Transcription
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is RNA?
A type of nucleic acid that carries the code to make proteins
A Punnett square is used to:
Show the probability of traits
A ______________ is a different form of a gene.
Allele
______________ is the process of making a protein from RNA.
Translation
What does RNA stand for?
Ribonucleic acid
What is replication?
Copying DNA
Mendel is known as?
The father of Genetics
The ______________ is the genetic makeup of an organism.
Genotype
Genes are inherited from both parents through sexual reproduction. This is part of ______________.
Genes
The process of copying a DNA molecule to make another DNA molecule?
Replication