Vocabulary
Only needs 1 allele to be expressed
What is dominant?
Characteristics that make a person unique?
What are traits?
Organisms look the way they do because of ______.
What is genetics?
Humans have ____ different pairs of chromosomes
What is 23?
_________ are the physical traits that result from the genes.
What are phenotypes?
Requires both alleles to be expressed
What is recessive?
Differences
What is variation?
A person has 2 alleles for every _____.
What is a gene?
How many chromosomes in all does a human have?
What is 46?
________ are the DNA code of the genes.
What are genotypes?
Passing traits to offspring
What is heredity?
One form of a gene?
What is an allele?
Gregor Mendal experimented on______
What are Pea Plants?
Genes are organized into______.
What are chromosomes?
Tt
What is your genotype?
Structure of DNA that carry genetic information
What are chromosomes?
Diagram used to see the chance of passing on certain traits
What is the Punnett Square?
A majority of genetic mutation are considered to be _________
What is harmful or injurious, etc?
All genetic material is made of ________.
What is DNA?
Brown hair, blue eyes, straight hair
What is your phenotype?
If one allele is dominant, a dominant trait will be _______
Example Brown eyes are dominant to Blue eyes, so brown eyes will be _________.
What is expressed?
Each __________ has one chromosome from the mother and one from the father.
There are 2 of them they are considered a _______
What is a pair?
_____ is considered the founder of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Name the 4 bases in DNA or give me the initial and what it pairs with.
What are A - Adenine pairs with T - Thymine and G - Guanine pairs with C - Cytosine
Besides genetics what other factor our responsible for how you will grow and develop?
What is nutrition and environment? or will except lifestyle