Genetics
Terms
Inheritance
Brain Busters
Random
100
This process creates new & identical cells.
What is mitosis?
100
What is allele?
What is a different form of the same gene?
100
What is a trait?
What is a specific characteristic or feature exhibited by an organism?
100
Why is the word homologous used to describe chromosome pairs, rather than the word identical?
Homologous chromosomes are pairs of chromosomes that appear similar, in terms of length and other characteristics but they are not identical to each other.
100

One four o'clock flower in the P (parent) generation is red and the other is white. What will the F1 generation outcome colour be?

What is pink?

200

This process creates reproductive cells.

What is meiosis?

200
What happens in crossing over?
What is the exchange of chromosomal segments between a pair of homologous chromosomes?
200
What was the organism Mendel studied?
What is Pea Plant?
200
How is a female carrier represented on a pedigree?

What is a half filled-in circle?

200
What are Punnett squares?
What is the possible offspring that could be formed from the gametes of the parents?
300
Four stages in Mitosis. (In Order)
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase?
300

What are homologous chromosomes?

What are chromosomes inherited from each parent with similar genetic information?

300

How many chromosomes are found in a diploid human cell?

What is 46 chromosomes?

300

What is an example of an x-linked trait that we discussed in class?

What is color-blindness?

300

What is sickle cell anemia?

What is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation leading to abnormally shaped red blood cells?

400

What is the name of the research project where scientists sequenced the entire human genome?

What is the Human Genome Project?

400
What is haploid?
Haploid - half the number of chromosomes
400
What is the differences between dominant and recessive?
Dominant - the form of a trait that always appears when an individual has an allele for it. Recessive - the form of a trait that only appears when an individual has two alleles for it.
400

A doctor may use a _________ to examine the chromosomes in a cell.

What is a karyotype?

400

What is the genetic disorder characterized by an extra chromosome 21?

What is Down syndrome?

500
Genotype describes the genes of an organism and __________________ describes the way an organism looks.
What is phenotype?
500

What is a carrier?

What is an individual carrying one copy of the recessive allele for a particular trait?

500

What are the possible genotypes for someone with Type B blood?

What BB and Bo?

500
A goat that has both red and white hair but its presented in patches. What is that Codominance, Incomplete Dominance or crossing over?
What is Codominance?
500
One person has brown eyes and the other has blue eyes. Who has the dominant eye colour and who has recessive eye colour?
What is brown = dominant, blue = recessive?
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