The "Father of Genetics"
This man is often called "The Father of Genetics" for his revolutionary work studying hereditary.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This kind of chart is used to help predict the genotypes of offspring.
What is a Punnett square?
This kind of inheritance pattern occurs when the heterozygous phenotype lies between the two homozygous phenotypes, like a red and white flower making a pink flower.
What is incomplete dominance?
This is the amount of cells that are made from one parent cell in meiosis.
What is 4?
These are factors that determine an individual's characteristics. They are passed down from one generation to the next.
What are genes?
The "Father of Genetics" used these kinds of plants to study inheritance.
What are pea plants?
This term refers to an organism that has two different alleles for the same gene.
What is heterozygous?
Some kinds of chickens show this kind of inheritance, where the phenotypes produced by both alleles are clearly shown in the offspring.
What is codominance?
This refers to a portion of meiosis where pieces of matching chromosomes are exchanged with each other.
What is crossing over?
This term specifically refers to the genetic makeup of an individual, rather than how the trait presents itself.
What is a genotype?
The so-called "Father of Genetics" had this occupation.
What is a monk?
If one parent plant is GG for green seed pods, and the other parent plant is gg for yellow pods, this is the probability that the offspring will have green seed pods.
What is 100%?
If you have type A blood, your body makes this kind of antigen on your blood cells.
What is the A antigen?
Meiosis has two stages, which means a cell that begins with 4 chromosomes will produce daughter cells with this many chromosomes.
What is 2?
This is the name for a specialized reproductive cell produced by meiosis.
What is a gamete?
This is the alphabetical term that the "Father of Genetics" gave to the first set of offspring plants.
What is F1?
Jimmy is BB for brown hair. His wife Sally is bb for blond hair. This is the probability that their kids will have blond hair.
What is 0%?
If a trait is produced by more than one gene, such as eye color, it is called this kind of trait.
What is a polygenic trait?
We say that chromosomes are this term when they have corresponding matches from each parent.
What is homologous?
This process refers to the separation of alleles during gamete formation.
What is segregation?
In order to prevent this from occurring, the so-called "Father of Genetics" cut away the male or female parts of a flower.
What is self-pollination?
This is the chance that parents that are both Bb for hair color (B = brown hair, b = blond hair) will have 2 children with blond hair.
What is 12.5% (or 1/8th)
If you have type B blood, your body makes this kind of antibody in your blood plasma.
What is anti-A?
A cell with 2 sets of matching chromosomes is called this, meaning "double".
What is diploid?
This principle states that genes for different traits can segregate independently during the formation of gametes.
What is independent assortment?