Punnett Square
What would RR be?
Homozygous Dominant
What is genetics?
The Study of Heredity
What is a trait?
Different forms of a gene
What the probability?
The likelihood that a particular event will occur
What is a Punnett Square?
What would Rr be?
Heterozygous
Where are genes located?
Chromosomes
Different forms of a gene?
What is heterozygous?
Two different alleles
What are two traits that you can inherit from your parents?
What is rr?
homozygous recessive
Inherited traits that offspring get from their parents come from....
Genes
How do you get your alleles?
What is homozygous?
Two of the same alleles
How many chromosomes do humans have?
Mom is heterozygous for Brown eyes and Dad has blue eyes. What are the chances they will have a child with Brown eyes?
50%
What do we call the genetic makeup of the individual?
Genotype
Who is known as the Father of Genetics?
What is dominant?
An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism - Capital Letter
What is heredity?
In the hairy Blurp, purple fur (P) is dominant to pink fur (p). What do you get if you cross Homozygous purple blurp and Pink Blurp.
Genotype - Pp - 100%
Phenotype - Pink - 100%
Purple - 0%
What are the physical characteristics of an organism called?
Phenotype
What is a hybrid? Give an example
What is recessive?
What is codominance?