Vocabulary
Monohybrid Cross
Dihybrid Cross
Patterns of Inheritance
Review
100
The physical appearance of a trait
What is phenotype?
100
Straight hair is dominant to curly hair.
What is the recessive trait?
100
Create the genotype for an organism who is heterozygous for 2 traits.
What is AaBb?
100
Eye Color, Skin Color, Height, Weight are all examples of which non-mendelian pattern of inheritance?
What is polygenic inheritance?
100
Egg cells and sperm cells are called gametes. Gametes are products of what cellular process?
What is Meiosis
200
A gene pair that consists of two identical alleles
What is homozygous
200
Diagram a Punnett square for 2 heterozygous parents.
What is 1RR:2Rr:1rr
200
What are the possible gametes produced from parents who are aabb?
What is ab,ab,ab, and ab?
200
ABO Human blood typing lets use know that many alleles can provide 4 different types of blood. Which pattern of inheritance does this follow?
What is multiple alleles?
200
The monomer for a protein is called this_______.
What is an amino acid?
300
The genetic makeup of an organism
What is genotype?
300
In plants, green (G) leaves are dominant to yellow (g) leaves. Cross two heterozygous plants. What is the chance of offspring with yellow leaves?
What is 25% or 1 in 4.
300
How many traits are considered when completing a dihybrid cross?
What is two?
300
Provide an example of incomplete dominance.
Answers will vary
300
You are at the grocery store. You are looking for a snack that provides long term energy storage. Which biomolecule are you looking for?
What are lipids (fats)
400
A gene pair that consists of a dominant allele and a recessive allele
What is heterozygous?
400
White spotted beetles are dominant over solid colored beetles. A heterozygous male is crossed with a solid female. What is the genotypic ratio of their offspring?
What is fifty percent?
400
What are the two methods used in class to determine the gametes needed to complete a dihybrid punnett square?
What is the FOIL method and the number method?
400
Blood type AB is considered to be this- This is also the result of two alleles both being expressed together in the phenotype.
What is codominance?
400
This is created from a sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base
What is a nucleotide?
500
Two alleles represented by 2 lowercase letters
What is a recessive allele?
500
Monohybrid crosses represent which law established by Mendel?
What is the law of segregation?
500
Dihybrid Crosses represent which law established by Mendel?
What is the law of independent assortment?
500
Eye color is determined by three or more genes which allows the phenotype to be a range of colors. Which type of non-mendelian inheritance does this follow?
What is polygenic inheritance
500
What is the name of a special protein that speeds reactions up, breaks down materials, or builds materials called?
What is an enzyme?
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