Genetics
What is genetics?
The study of heredity.
Which type of reproduction requires two parents and the offspring is a mix of those parents?
What is sexual?
A capital letter represents what?
The two letters that make up a genotype are called _______________.
What are alleles?
Where are genes located?
On chromosomes/inside the nucleus
Who controls the process of selective breeding?
What are humans?
Name two traits that could be inherited from a parent.
What is: hair color, eye color, skin, height, freckles, widows peak.
How many outcomes are possible as a result of a Punnett square?
What is 4?
When talking about the chromosomes that help determine someone's gender, the letter X represents male or female?
What is female?
You are taught/you learn it.
ex: reading, writing, speaking, eating, learning to walk/run/ride a bike, play a sport, etc.
Name an plant that has been selectively bred over the years
Corn, bananas, apples, carrots, etc.
What is DNA?
What is your genetic material?
A black chicken (BB) is crossed with a black chicken (Bb). What percentage of offspring will be black?
100%
If a genotype has one capital letter in it, it is ____________ and ______________.
What is dominant and heterozygous?
Traits that children get from their parents are called _______________ traits
inherited
Who does the choosing in natural selection and what is being chosen?
Nature chooses who survives their environment.
What type of reproduction occurs when one parent is required and the offpsring is identical to the single parent?
What is asexual?
Two letters that are both lowercase are called ________________.
What is recessive?
Having light colored eyes is what kind of trait? Dominant or recesssive?
What is recessive?
Name an animal that has been selectively bred over the years
Dogs, cats, most pets, horses, cows, pigeons, etc.
Two dark brown rabbits have four offspring. Three of the offspring are dark and one is white. What does this tell you about the parents' genotypes and the one white rabbit's genotype?
Dark brown is dominant and white fur is recessive. Both parents are heterozygous, the white offspring is recessive.
Two letters that look the same are known as
What is homozygous?
An organism that produces offspring is known as a ______________.
parent