Genetics
The STUDY of how traits are passed from parent to offspring is called...
What is genetics?
The passing of traits from parent to offspring...
What is heredity?
B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes. An organism has the genotype bb will exhibit this phenotype.
What are blue eyes?
Genes can be hidden or covered up by another. These are considered to be-
What is recessive
Hybrid means...
What is heterozygous?
Genes are located...
What is in the nucleus?
What is on chromosomes?
This person first studied heredity and the passage of traits from one generation to the next...
Who is Gregor Mendel?
B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes. An organism has the genotype Bb will exhibit this phenotype.
What are brown eyes?
The punnet square used to...
What is predict possible outcome of genetic crossings?
This word means the same is homozygous...
What is purebred?
These are the threadlike structures of DNA that carry genes...
What are chromosomes?
This is the type of organism that Gregor Mendel used to first study heredity?
What are pea plants?
This is the number of recessive alleles an individual must inherit to display the recessive phenotype.
What is two?
A heterozygous black chicken is crossed with a homozygous dominant black chicken. What percentage of offspring will be black?
100%
This is the percentage of genes an offspring inherits from each parent in asexual reproduction...
What is 100%?
The genetic make up of the individual, represented by a set of letters...
What is genotype?
The physical trait observed in an offspring is known as it's -
What is phenotype?
A heterozygous black cat is crossed with a homozygous recessive gray cat. What is the dominant trait?
What is black?
Having dimples is dominant (D). Not having dimples is recessive. (d) Both parents are heterozygous for the dominant trait. What percentage of the children will NOT have dimples?
25%
The purpose of mitosis is...
What is growth, repair, and asexual reproduction?
BB, Bb, and bb are all examples of....
What are genotypes?
Brown hair or blue eyes are examples of...
What is a phenotype?
B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes. If an organism displays the recessive trait, what would be it's phenotype?
What is blue eyes?
Long ears are dominant (E) in rabbits. If one parent is homozygous dominant for the long ear trait and the other homozygous reccessive (e), what is the only possible genotype of the offspring?
Ee
Two dark brown rabbits have four offspring. Three of the offspring are dark and one is white. The parenets genotypes must be...
What is heterozygous?