Laws & ‘Lleles
Mm is this type of allele pair.
What is heterozygous?
If two parents, both with orange eyes, have a baby with purple eyes, the trait for purple eyes must be _________.
What is recessive?
The set of genes in the somatic cells of an organism is called its ________.
What is genotype?
The different forms a gene might take are known as these.
What are alleles?
GG is this type of allele pair.
What is homozygous dominant?
A frog with brown warts (WW) & a frog with green warts (ww) mate. The probability of their offspring having brown warts is _____.
What is 100% (Ww)?
This type of allele is only expressed if two copies are present.
What is a recessive allele?
Two different copies of an allele would be described as _________.
What is heterozygous?
pp is this type of allele pair.
What is homozygous recessive?
A parrot with blue feathers (Ff) & a parrot with green feathers (ff) mate. The probability of their offspring having blue feathers is _____.
What is 50%?
This allele is expressed even if only one copy is present.
What is a dominant allele?
Two of the same copies of an allele.
What is heterozygous?
This Law states that allele pairs separate during meiosis.
What is the Law of Segregation?
A pea plant with wrinkly seeds (ss) & is pollinated by a pea plant with wrinkly seeds (ss). The probability of their offspring plant’s seeds being smooth is ______.
What is 0%?
This describes the observable characteristics of an organism - it’s appearance.
What is phenotype?
Traits are determined by both of these things.
What are genotype & phenotype?
This Law states that allele pairs assort independently of one another.
What is the Law of Independent Assortment?
A macaroni penguin with golden-yellow ear tufts (Tt) mates with another penguin with golden-yellow ear tufts (Tt). The chance their chick will have butter-yellow ear tufts (tt) is _______.
What is 25%?
What is a Punnet Square?
What are homologous chromosomes?