Genetic Basics
Explains how traits are passed down from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
Carries information which controls everything that happens in a cell.
What is DNA?
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A complete copy of an organisms DNA.
What is a genome?
Eye color that is most dominant.
What is brown?
The study of heredity.
What is genetics?
Structures inside the nucleus that hold the DNA.
What are chromosomes?
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What is Pikachu?
Different versions of genes.
What is an allele?
Percent chance of having a child with brown eyes when each parent has brown eyes.
What is 75%?
Discovered the basic laws of heredity.
Who is Gegor Mendel?
A segment or piece of DNA that specifies a specific trait in an organism.
What is a gene?
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The version of a gene that always shows if you have at least one copy in your DNA. It is the stronger allele.
What is a dominant allele?
Percent chance of having a child with blue eyes when both parents have brown eyes.
What is 25%?
The type of plant Gregor Mendel experimented with.
What is a pea plant?
Cytosine, guanine, thymine, and adenine.
What are the four bases that make up DNA?
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The version of a gene that is weaker and only shows up if you don't have a copy of the stronger allele.
What is a recessive allele?
Percent chance of having a child with brown eyes when one parent has brown eyes and one parent has blue eyes.
What is 50%?
The two visible traits of the pea plants Mendel experimented with.
What is tall and short?
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What is EEZ?
What we see on people from a physical aspect.
What are traits?
Percent chance of having a child with blue eyes when one parent has brown eyes and one parent has blue eyes.