The small bodies inside a nucleus that contain the genes.
What are chromosomes?
100
The outside physical appearance of an organism ex: eye color
What is Characteristics?
100
An organism that has only one kind of allele for one type of trait. Example: TT or tt
What is Homozygous?
100
The trait that is always seen. It is always represented by a capital letter.
What is Dominant Trait?
100
What is produced in reproduction
What is Offspring?
200
Reproduction that occurs with only one parent in which they make exact copies of themselves is called ____________________.
Reproduction that occurs when offspring inherit traits from two parent cells is called _____________________.
What is Asexual Repoduction and Sexual Reproduction? (must be in that order)
200
A version of a characteristic ex: blue, green, hazel, brown
What is Trait?
200
An organism that has alleles for two different traits. Example: Tt
What is Heterozygous?
200
The trait that is hidden. It is always represented by a lower case letter (t)
What is Recessive Trait?
200
Name this allele pair Tt.
What is Heterzygous Dominant?
300
Inherited bits of information that are passed from parents' cells to child's cells
What are genes?
300
When parents pass a trait it is a ____________ trait.
What is Inherited?
300
This is a diagram that shows how likely each outcome of a breeding experiment is. (the ratio of inherited traits)
What is a Punnett Square?
300
A random change that causes the offspring cell to have a different trait from the parent cells
What is Mutation?
300
The use of asexual reproduction to artificially copy an offspring cell so that it is identical to the parent cell
What is Cloning?
400
Gregor Mendel studied reproduction using pea plants. He discovered that genes could be ______________ or _________________.
What is Dominant or Recessive? (the order does not matter)
400
The study of traits that are passed from parent to child
What is Heredity?
400
a person who has the recessive allele yet the trait is not seen. He or she can pass the trait to an offspring
What is a Carrier?
400
Having no specific pattern
What is Random?
400
Using the words homozygous, heterozygous, dominant, and recessive ... which combination of words is impossible?
What is Heterozygous Recessive
500
When the female reproduction cell_______ and the male reproductive cell ________________ join, it is called ____________________________.
What is Egg, Sperm, and Fertilization? (must be in that order)
500
The study of variations and heredity.
What is Genetics?
500
Describes how likely it is that something occurs
What is Probability?
500
Two copies of a gene, we use a capital or lower case letter to express these
What is Allele?
500
If you get traits from your environment, it is called ______________________. If you get traits from genes, it is called ________________________.