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How many dominant alleles are needed for a particular trait to show up?
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Big teeth (T) is dominant over small teeth (t). What is a possible genotype for big teeth?

TT or Tt.

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If a snake has 36 chromosomes in it's body cells, how many chromosomes did it inherit from the father snake?

18

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Is RR considered homozygous or heterozygous genotype?

Homozygous

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How is a dominate allele expressed in a genotype?

By a capital letter 

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What is heterozygous?

One dominant allele one recessive allele

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Where is our chromosome located?

inside of the nucleus

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What are the genotypes for males?

XY

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This is an organism's genetic makeup.
Genotype
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This is an organism's physical appearance.
Phenotype
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If yellow (Y) if dominant over blue (y), what is the phenotype for the genotype yy?

Blue

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An organism with 2 different alleles for a trait is called a ______.
Hybrid/heterozygous
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This shows all of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.
Punnett square
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This type of organism has 2 different alleles for a trait
Heterozygous
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What happens when a recessive allele is paired up with a dominant allele?
It is hidden / doesn't show up
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What is a genotype?

The genetic makeup of an organism.

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This type of organism has 2 dominant alleles for a trait.

Homozygous dominant

400

Do the following cross (A = freckles, a = no freckles):

Aa x Aa

What are the possible genotypes?

Phenotypes?

AA, Aa, aa

75% Freckles

25% No Freckles

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Would Tt be considered as a homozygous or heterozygous genotype? Why?

Heterozygous because it has one dominant and one recessive allele

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This type of organism has 2 recessive alleles for a trait
Homozygous recessive
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This is the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring.
Heredity
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This was the scientist who first began studying heredity and genetics.
Gregor Mendel
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A section of DNA is called

a gene

500

This is the study of heredity

Genetics

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Do the following cross where B = blue eyes, b = brown eyes.


Bb x bb

Genotype?

Phenotype?

Bb, bb

50% Blue Eyes

50% Brown Eyes

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