What is genetics?
The study of heredity.
How are traits passed from parents to offspring?
Some genes can be hidden or covered up by another. They are normally less common in populations. These are considered to be _______?
Recessive genes
Where is DNA mostly found within a cell?
What is the nucleus
What process of reproduction would result in genetic variation in offspring?
Sexual reproduction results in genetic reproduction.
What determines how a tiger gets it's stripes?
What are their parents and heredity?
Name two traits that could be inherited from a parent.
What is: hair color, eye color, skin, height, freckles, widows peak.
How can these 2 genotypes be described: Hh and tt?
Hh-heterozygous
tt- homozygous dominant
What are the highly organized threadlike structures of DNA that carry genes called?
Chromosomes
What is the "control center" of the cell ?
What is the Nucleus
Fragmentation is another form of what kind of reproduction?
Asexual reproduction
A black feathered chicken (BB) is crossed with a black feathered chicken (BB). What percentage of offspring will be black feathered?
100%
What is a probable reason that a trait skips a generation?
The trait is recessive.
Inherited traits that children get from their parents come from-
Genes
The different versions of a gene are called ____?
alleles
The likelihood that a particular event will occur.
probability
What would make butterflies of the same species can different colors?
What is receiving different genes that determine their color?
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' genes for fur color?
Dark brown is dominant and white fur is recessive. Both parents are heterozygous.
Sonny has a recessive gene for blond hair and marries Mallory who has a heterozygous genotype and brown hair. Sonny and Mallory have a child together, what is the chance that their child will have blond hair?
50% chance the child will have blond hair.
An organism that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as the parent.
purebred