Genetics
Vocab
History
Structure
Other
100
the factors that control traits
What is a gene?
100
one of two or more forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found in the same place on a chromosome
What is allele?
100
The father of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
100
the 3 things that make up DNA
What is deoxyribose, genes, and sugar?
100
DNA stands for this
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
The two types of genes
What are dominant and recessive?
200
the transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring by means of genes in the chromosomes
What is heredity?
200
The organisms Gregor Mendel first studied
What is pea plants?
200
the shape of a strand of DNA
What is a double helix?
200
one way scientists learn about what is necessary for life
What is studying DNA?
300
Some traits that you can get from your parents
What are eye color, hair color, height, behavior, diseases, etc.?
300
the fundamental constitution of an organism in terms of it's hereditary factors
What is a genotype?
300
First person to observe a cell
Who is James Watson?
300
the 4 components of genes
What is guanine, cytosine, thymine, and adenine?
300
to be considered living you must be able to do this
What is to reproduce?
400
Genes are sometimes considered this
What is the software of life?
400
situation in which both alleles are expressed
What is co-dominant?
400
what James Watson discovered
What is what DNA looks like?
400
a double helix is called a double helix because of this
What is because you get one half from your mom and one half from your dad?
400
having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristic
What is homozygous?
500
DNA is located here
What is in the chromosome in the nucleus in a cell?
500
having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic
What is heterozygous?
500
Gregor Mendel's nickname
What is the "Father of Genetics"?
500
the letter that stands for sugar in the DNA model
What is P?
500
the characteristics of an organism resulting from both its heredity and its enviroment
What is phenotype?
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