Vocabulary
What is the name for the variation of a gene / trait?
What is an allele?
Who is considered, "the father of genetics"?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Which of the following best defines heredity?
A: The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
B: The study of the genetic instructions that are passed from parent to offspring
C: The specific sequence of DNA and RNA that code for specific traits
D: The process of creating more organisms of a species
What is A?
A: The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
What is the probability that a certain allele is inherited from one parent?
What is 50%?
What is Mr. Heyvaert's favorite color?
What is green?
When two alleles are the same they are called.
What is homozygous?
What type of plant did Gregor Mendel experiment on?
What are pea plants?
Which of the following best explains the difference between the terms “genetics” and “heredity”?
A: Genetics is the study of recessive traits; heredity is the study of dominant traits.
B: Genetics is the study of dominant traits; heredity is the study of recessive traits.
C: Genetics is the study of genes; heredity is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next.
D:Genetics is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next, heredity is the study of genes.
What is C?
C: Genetics is the study of genes; heredity is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next.
Two dogs mate and it is known that brown fur (F) is dominant to white fur (f). One dog is homozygous dominant whereas the other is homozygous recessive. What is the probability that their offspring have a ff genotype?
What is 0%?
How tall is Mr. Heyvaert
6' 2"
When two alleles are different they are called.
What is heterozygous?
Name 4 of the 7 different traits that Mendel tested?
What are
Seed Color
Seed Shape
Plant Height
Pod Shape
Pod Color
Flower Location
Flower Color
Which of the following is not an example of heredity?
A: Lions show their cubs how to hunt for prey.
B: Bacteria reproduce asexually to create cells identical to the parent cell.
C: A boy who is 5 feet, 10 inches is taller than his father who is 5 feet, 8 inches tall.
D: A red geranium plant is bred with a white geranium plant which produces a pink geranium.
What is A?
A: Lions show their cubs how to hunt for prey.
Two dogs mate and it is known that brown fur (F) is dominant to white fur (f). One dog is homozygous dominant whereas the other is homozygous recessive. What is the probability that their offspring have brown fur?
What is 100%?
Name five national parks in California
Channel Islands, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Yosemite, Lassen, Redwood, Pinnacles
Rank by smallest to largest
-Chromosome
-Gene
-Genome
-DNA Base Pair
What is DNA Base Pair, Gene, Chromosome, Genome?
What did Mendel see happen a when purebred purple plant (PP) and a purebred white plant (pp) cross pollinated?
What is 4 hybrids all showing the dominate trait of purple flowers?
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
A homozygous tall and a heterozygous tall are crossed. What are the genotypes present in the Punnett square?
TT and Tt
Who is USA playing in the first game of the men's world cup?
What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?
A genotype is the combination of alleles, whereas the phenotype is the expression of those alleles
While till using (PP) and (pp) in P generation,
What genotypes will we see in the F2 generation?
How many plants are purebred dominate Purple?
How many are hybrids?
How many are purebred recessive white?
What are PP, Pp and pp?
What is 1 purebred dominate purple?
What is 2 hybrids?
What is 1 purebred recessive white?
How much DNA do you have in common with a fruit fly? Round to the nearest tenth
36% (40%)
In a fish, gold skin color (G) is dominant to black skin color (g) and split tail fin (S) is dominant to single tail fin (s). A breeder crosses a male fish that is homozygous dominant for both traits with a female fish that is homozygous recessive for both genotypes. What is the probability that the offspring will have gold skin and a split tail fin?
100%
Which US state capital has the smallest population?
What is Montpelier, Vermont?