Vocabulary
The study of heredity.
What is Genetics?
The likelihood that something will occur.
What is probability?
When one notices and describes events or process. First step of the scientific method.
What is observing?
The inheritance of biological characteristics are determined by _______.
What are genes?
Meiosis or Mitosis?
Which process goes through 2 divisions, ending with 4 different daughter cells?
What is Meiosis?
The separation of allele pairs during gamete formation.
What is segregation?
In your own words, describe what a hybrid is.
What is the result of genetically crossing two organisms?
In your own words, describe what an inference is.
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The gamete for homozygous short.
What is tt?
Name all four phases of Meiosis in correct order.
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase.
The variation of a gene that produces an expressed trait.
What is an allele?
Describing an organism that has 2 different alleles (e.g. Tt).
What is heterozygous?
This is a scientific explanation that will be tested in ways that support or reject it (If...Then...).
What is a hypothesis?
Give 2 reasons why Mendel experimented with pea plants.
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In mitosis, the end result is how many identical daughter cells?
2 identical daughter cells.
Each of the chromosomes from the male parent has a corresponding chromosome from a female parent. What are these chromosomes called?
What are homologous chromosomes?
An organism's genetic makeup.
What is a genotype?
One collects and analyzes these to see if the hypothesis is true or false.
What are data?
When two or more alleles are present, one may be __________ and one may be ____________.
What are dominant and recessive?
This happens to chromosomes during interphase.
What is chromosomes replicate to form 2 pairs?
What are centrioles?
When one allele is not completely dominant over another.
What is incomplete dominance?
In ___________ experiments, independent and dependent variables are included.
What is controlled experiments?
Genotype- 1 TT : 2 Tt : 1 tt
What is the phenotype?
3 tall ; 1 short
Two differences between haploid and diploid cells.
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