Vocabulary
Sex Chromosomes
History
Punnett Squares
Strawberry Lab
100
The chance that a given event will occur.
What is probability?
100
Of the two sex chromosomes, this is the larger one (contains more genes).
What is X?
100
True or False: You can get a cell to take in foreign DNA; the cell will then express the traits in that DNA.
What is true?
100
The allele that is only expressed if two copies of the allele are present.
What is recessive?
100
DNA can be found in this type of cell.
What is all of them?
200
Individual versions of genes are called this.
What are alleles?
200
The female sex chromosome.
What is X?
200
This is the study of heredity.
What is genetics?
200
The allele that is always expressed.
What is dominant?
200
Each strawberry cell has this many copies of its genome in each cell.
What is eight?
300
Two DIFFERENT dominant genes are present; the phenotype is a blend of both.
What is incomplete dominance?
300
The male sex chromosome.
What is Y?
300
This was the first person to discover sex chromosomes.
Who is Nettie Stevens?
300
If a black mouse and a white mouse mate, and all the offspring are black, this is the dominant allele.
What is black?
300
In the solution, the DNA strands coiled around particles of this.
What is salt?
400
What an organism physically looks like.
What is phenotype?
400
This is the type of sex chromosome a female can give to her offspring?
What is always X?
400
This is the type of organism that Mendel experimented on.
What are pea plants?
400
The two alleles are different.
What is heterozygous?
400
This substance caused the DNA to precipitate out of the solution.
What is ethanol/rubbing alcohol?
500
The genetic makeup of an organism.
What is genotype?
500
What type of sex chromosome can a male give to his offspring?
What is X or Y?
500
This was the first person to study genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
Both alleles are the same.
What is homozygous?
500
This substance was used to break open (lyse) the cells.
What is detergent?
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