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

What is the P generation stand for?

Parents

100
One snapdragons in P generation is red and the other is white. What will the F1 generation outcome colour be?
What is pink?
200
This process creates sperm & egg.
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

What law states that the dominant allele will be visible over the recessive allele?

The law of dominance

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 is it called when one gene can influence multiple traits?

Pleiotropy
300

Female chromosomes are __?

XX

300

What is it called when one allele can affect the phenotypic expression of another allele?

Epistasis

300
The Central Dogma states that?

DNA --> mRNA --> Proteins

400
What are the complementary base pairs?
What is A-T and G-C?
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
Distinguish between the terms phenotype and genotype?
What is the combination of the alleles and the physical traits of an organism?
400
What is the condition that an individual that has 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 recombination?

The rearrangement of genetic material, especially by crossing over in chromosomes or by the artificial joining of segments of DNA from different organisms.

500
What was Mendel's ratio for F2 generation?
What is 3:1?
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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