dad, Dad, DAD!
Cells, cells and more cells.
LOOKS like it is funny!
Who says?
Genetics are for SQUARES
100

The Father of Genetics

Who is Gregor Mendel

100

The chromosomes made of long chains of molecules

What is DNA

100

The term used to describe the organism's physical characteristics. 

What is trait

100

The term used to describe the scientific study of heredity? 

What is Genetics

100

What is the name of a chart that is used to calculate the probablility of an offspring combination of alleles

What is a Punnett Square

200

The type of plant that Gregor Mendel studied? 

What is a pea plant

200

The genetic information stored within the nucleus of a cell

What is a chromosome

200

What you can learn

What is Acquired trait

200

The process in which characteristics passed from parents to offspring 

What is heredity

200

The alleles that are represented by a capital letter and will always show up if present.

What is dominant

300

The parent responsible for gender at birth.

Who is the father.

300

You get half of your chromosomes from your mom and half from your dad. How many chromosomes total do you get? 

What is 46

300

The traits that you get from your mother or your father

What is inherited traits

300

The language we speak is called an __________trait. 

What is acquired? 

300

The alleles that are represented by lower case letters and will only show up if they are paired with a similar allele

What is recessive

400

Gregor Mendel's living space

What is a monastery

400

The term that describes a segment of DNA that has a code for a specific trait

What is gene

400

The term that is used to describe the total physical appearance of an individual

Phenotype

400

The term that describes two paired alleles that are exactly the same. 

What is homozygous

400

Cross a homozygous dominant plant with a homozygous recessiive plant. 

T=tall.      t= short

What are the possible genotypes of the offspring? 

Tt

500

Mendel discovered that sometimes a recessive trait can _______ a generation. 

What is skip

500

The term that describes one of a pair of genes that controls a certain characteristic. 

What is allele

500

The term used to describe the specific genetic make up or "code" of an indivdual? 

What is genotype

500

The term that describes two paired alleles that are different from each other. 

What is heterozygous? 

500

Complete the Punnett Square below, filling in the missing information. 

Rr, rr, Rr, rr

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