Vocabulary
This is the study of heredity.
What is genetics?
Homozygous (BB) breeds with Heterozygous (Bb) What is the probability of the offspring being Homozygous Recessive (bb)?
What is 0%?
Mom has dark brown eyes, and dad has blue eyes. Their baby has blue eyes.. What does this say about Mom's alleles?
What is... She is a carrier for blue eyes. Her allele is heterozygous. Bb
The sticky surface on top of the flower that catches pollen.
What is style?
Pp, Tt, Rr, Jj, Uu
What is heterozygous?
A characteristc/feature of an organism.
What is trait?
BB and bb breed. What is the probability of a Bb offspring?
What is 100%?
A black horse breeds with a white horse. All of the ponies they have are black.
What does this about the black horse's alleles (BB/Bb/bb)?
What is... Black is dominant, and the black great dane was homozygous dominant. (BB)
Reproduction in which it is not necessary to have two parents to produce offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
HH, OO, BB, ZZ, TT
What is homozygous?
Observable characteristics of an organism.
What is phenotype?
Bb and Bb breed. What is the probability of a homozygous recessive offspring?
What is 25%?
Mom has dark brown eyes, dad has bright blue eyes. They have 4 children. Only one child has brown eyes. What is the genotype of the 3 kids that have blue eyes?
What is... They are all homozygous recessive (bb).
The recorded ancestry of a person or family.
What is pedigree?
The ability for an organism to blend in with their physical surroundings.
What is camouflage?
Genotype made of two different alleles, example Bb.
What is a heterozygous?
Bb and Bb breed. What is the probability of a Homozygous Dominant offspring?
What is 25%?
A plant has been producing blue flowers for thousands of years. All of a sudden, red flowers begin appearing.
What could be the cause as related to genetics?
What is mutation?
The carrier of genetic information in the form of genes.
What is chromosome?
Holds up the anthers, gives structure to a flower.
What are filaments?
The female part of a flower.
What is pistil?
Homozygous recessive breeds with another homozygous recessive individual.
What is the probability of a homozygous dominant offspring?
What is 0%?
Josiah was born with blonde hair but now dyes it black as an adult.
He meets Lisa, who has blonde hair (was born with it too) and they have children.
What are the chances their children have black hair?
What is 0%/no chance?
What is the genetic reason that cats and dogs cannot reproduce?
What is they are not the same species?
DNA stands for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?