Vocabulary
A characteristic of an organism
What is TRAIT?
The percentage chance of two parents with RECESSIVE traits having children with a DOMINANT trait
What is 0%?
Brown eyes (B) are dominant to blue eyes (b). The genotype for somebody with blue eyes is..
What is bb?
Blue eyes (b) are recessive to brown eyes (B). The phenotype of somebody with the genotype Bb is...
What is brown?
The Panthers!
The term used to describe the physical trait that shows in an organism based on its genes.
What is PHENOTYPE?
The percentage chance of a homozygous dominant parent having children with a dominant trait.
What is 100%?
Brown eyes (B) is dominant to blue eyes (b). The genotype for a homozygous brown eye person is...
In frogs, green skin (G) is dominant to brown skin (g). The phenotype of a frog with the genotype gg is...
What is brown skin?
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The term used to describe genes found on a specific chromosome at a specific location that codes for a specific trait. Represented by a single letter in the organism's genotype.
What is ALLELE?
The chances of two parents that are heterozygous for a trait having offspring with a recessive trait?
What is 25%?
In pigs, a curly tail (C) is dominant to a straight tail (c). The possible genotype(s) of a pig with a curly tail is/are...
What is CC and Cc?
Long eyelashes (L) are dominant to short eyelashes (l). Two people with short eyelashes have offspring. The phenotype of their offspring will be...
What is short eyelashes?
The name of Harry Potter's owl.
What is Hedwig?
A form of a trait that will “mask” another form of the trait.
What is DOMINANT ALLELE?
In frogs, green skin (G) is dominant to brown skin (g). A frog with brown skin mates with a frog with green skin. Some of their offspring have green skin, while others have brown skin. The MOST LIKELY genotype for the frog with green skin is...
What is Gg?
Long eyelashes (L) are dominant to short eyelashes (l). The genotype for the offspring of a person that is homozygous for long eyelashes and a person that has short eyelashes is...
What is Ll?
In guinea pigs, big ears (E) is dominant to small ears (e). The possible phenotype(s) of the offspring of two heterozygous big eared guinea pigs is/are...
What is big ears and small ears?
Batman's real name.
What is Bruce Wayne?
The presence of two identical alleles at a particular gene locus.
What is HOMOZYGOUS ALLELES?
In guinea pigs, long fur (L) is dominant to short fur (l). The percentage chance of two heterozygous long haired guinea pigs having short haired offspring is...
What is 25%?
Some traits have three possible phenotypes, like hair texture. Somebody with curly hair has the genotype C1C1, somebody with straight hair has the genotype C2C2, and somebody with wavy hair has the genotype C1C2. If a person with curly hair has a baby with somebody with wavy hair, the possible genotype(s) of their offspring is/are...
What is C1C1 and C1C2?
Some traits have three possible phenotypes, like hair texture. Somebody with curly hair has the genotype C1C1, somebody with straight hair has the genotype C2C2, and somebody with wavy hair has the genotype C1C2. If a person with curly hair has a baby with somebody with wavy hair, the possible phenotype(s) of their offspring is/are...
What is curly hair and wavy hair?
The national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?