The characteristics of an organism.
What are traits?
This gene always shows is self over a recessive gene
What is a dominant gene?
All human cells contain _________ chromosomes
What is 46?
MOOOUHYGSZ
HOMOZYGOUS
a capital letter represents what type of trait?
What is a dominant trait?
The passing of traits from parent to offspring is called.
What is heredity?
This describes two of the same copies of a gene
What is homozygous?
If you are studying a population of genetically identical individuals in the entire population, you can conclude that these individuals reproduce how?
asexually
ARSTTI
TRAITS
Heterozygous parents are crossed. What percent of offspring will be homozygous dominant?
What is 25%?
Having dimples is dominant (D). Not having dimples is recessive. (d) Both parents are heterozygous for the dominant trait. What percentage of the children will NOT have dimples?
25 %
This describes different alleles for the same trait.
what is heterozygous?
Why does the corpse flower need to attract insects to reproduce?
DAILY DOUBLE
So the insect can pollinate it.
NEEG OVSIREN
GENE VERSION
What is codominance?
When both phenotypes are expressed, or when both alleles dominate together.
Chromosomes are made up of _______.
What is DNA?
Where are genes located? Shows possible gene combinations.
On the chromosomes.
Whats the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction?
Asexual - one parent
Sexual - two parents
RPTNOEI
Protein
What percent of the offspring of a cross of heterozygous parents will be heterozygous?
What is 50%?
An organism has ________copies of a gene for each feature.
two
Each parent randomly passes on one of its two copies of each gene to its offspring. TRUE OR FALSE
True
A specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
What is an allele?
STOEYOEUHRZG
HETEROZYGOUS
Make a punnett square crossing Rr X rr