Inside the Nucleus
What is the outermost layer between the following options? Nucleus, chromosomes, DNA, and genes
What is the NUCLEUS?
The type of letter used to identify a dominant trait
What is a CAPITAL or UPPERCASE letter?
A heterozygous parent would have this GENOTYPE using the traits B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes...
What is Bb?
The creation of new life with 1 or 2 parents is called...
What are TRAITS?
You get 23 of these from your mom and 23 of these from your dad. What are they?
What are CHROMOSOMES?
The physical characteristics we see.
What is a PHENOTYPE? (100 pts if they say "trait")
A homozygous dominant parent would have this GENOTYPE using the traits B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes...
What is BB?
Fill in the blank...Sexually produced offspring are ____________ to their parent.
What is DIFFERENT?
True or False? Humans influence the inheritance of traits by selecting specific chromosomes from plants or animals to distribute a desired trait into an offspring. (If true, explain why for an extra 200 pts. If false, state the correction for an extra 200 pts)
Our physical traits we inherit are coded on these.
What are GENES?
The only time a recessive trait will be visible in the phenotype
What is when there are ONLY recessive alleles in the genotype?
Make a punnett square with two heterozygous parents using the traits B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes! The FRACTION representing the number of offspring that are recessive...
What is 1/4?
Fill in the blank...Asexually produced offspring are ____________ to their parent.
What is IDENTICAL?
Reduction in nutritional value of food from crops that are genetically modified could be seen as an ADVANTAGE or DISADVANTAGE to this form of selective breeding. (pick one)
Chromosomes are made of this...
What is DNA?
Plant height, leaf shape, and flower color are all examples of this in plants...
What are INHERITED TRAITS?
Make a punnett square with two heterozygous parents using the traits B = brown eyes, b = blue eyes! The PERCENT representing the number of offspring that are recessive...
What is 25%?
In some organisms, a piece of the parent may bud off to produce offspring, this is an example of what type of reproduction? What is the name of this example? (400 pts per answer)
What is ASEXUAL reproduction? What is BUDDING?
Because cloning mammals has a very low success rate, and can produce severely damaged young, this is a ADVANTAGE or DISADVANTAGE of cloning?
What is DISADVANTAGE?
The different forms of a gene that can exist based on who your parents are...
What are ALLELES?
True or false, Chromosomes hold genes and traits, but genes and traits don't hold chromosomes.
What is TRUE?
Draw an example of a pedigree with TWO generations. In generation 1, the mom must have the recessive trait. In generation 2, one of the sons must have the recessive trait.
Sunflowers have a good bit of variation. When sunflowers are created, it starts with insects caring male portions of it to female portions of another flower. What kind of reproduction is this? What's the name of this example of said reproduction? (500 pts for each answer)
What is sexual reproduction? What is pollination?
Scientists have changed the DNA of a type of cabbage so that it contains a tiny amount of poison from a scorpion’s tail. The poison in the cabbage kills caterpillars that try to eat it. This is an example of...
What is GENETIC ENGINEERING?