Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Get on Your Thinking Cap
Bonus
Punnett Squares
100
What is the word that means "The scientific study of heredity"
What is genetics
100
What is the word that means "The passing of traits from parents to offspring"
What is heredity
100
What are the allele versions of a hair line
What is Widow's peak or no widow's peak (can also be called an Eddie)
100
What information is absolutely essential to a Punnett Square?
What is the parents genotype
100

Sickle cell anemia is a disease that occurs when an individual receives a recessive allele for sickle cell from each parent. Assume that a woman who is a carrier for sickle cell marries a man who is free of the disease. What are the chances of this couple having a child with sickle cell anemia?

0%

200
What word means "The entire set of genetic information for an organism. All of the genes in an organism"
What is the genome
200
What word means "An allele that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele"
What is dominant
200

What might occur if no stop codons were created in RNA during the transcription process?

Protein synthesis would continue forever because amino acids would keep being added

200
What is the scientific word used for "children" in a Punnett Square?
What is "offspring"
200
What does a cross that ends with a Phenotypic ratio of 100% Red mean? R = red r = white
What is that the Punnett Square would have a cross that ends with R in all the squares therefore showing the dominant trait in each cross being Red
300
What word means "The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait"
What is a gene
300
What word is defined as "The different forms of a gene."
What is allele
300

In the peas Mendel studied, yellow seeds were dominant to green, and rounds seeds were dominant to wrinkled.

Considering the laws of segregation and independent assortment, if a plant is heterozygous for both round and yellow seeds, how many different allele combinations could be produced by this plant in meiosis?

4

300
Acquired or Inherited? Leaf Shape
What is inherited
300
R is for Red and r is for white. What is the cross of a homozygous dominant and a heterozygous?
What is RR x Rr
400

This process occurs after replication and non-sister chromatids exchange gene segments to make new combinations of genes

crossing over

400

For the DNA sequence shown, the promoter sequence is located to the left of the written sequence. The promotor is a specific DNA sequence that is a secure initial binding site for RNA polymerase and other proteins called transcription factors to initiate transcription.


Strand 1: 5’- T C A A T G C G T C C A T T G A A C -3’

Strand 2: Promoter 3’- A G T T A C G C A G G T A A C T T G -5’

Met-Arg-Pro-Leu-Asn

400
Explain the difference between HH, Hh and hh.
What is HH: homozygous dominant Hh: heterozygous hh: homozygous recessive
400

Which of the processes offers the GREATEST evolutionary advantage of sexual versus asexual reproduction?  

meiosis

mitosis 

budding 

binary fission

Meiosis

400
What is the phenotypic ratio of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)
What is 100% Red
500
What is "An organism’s genetic make-up or allele combinations."
What is genotype
500
What is "An organism’s physical appearance or visible traits."?
What is phenotype
500

Given a DNA strand of gga-ctc-ctc-ttc-aga, if it becomes gga-atc-ctc-tta-cag-a, this is an example of

Insertion

500
Can you know a person's genotype if they are dominant in their phenotype?
What is no because they could be RR or Rr
500
What is the genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 100% Rr
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