Genetics
Genes
In the Nucleus
Differences
Miscellaneous
100
What Gen- means
What is Born?
100
A sequence of DNA that determines a trait
What is a Gene?
100
The molecule in all organisms that carries genetic information
What is DNA?
100
Having two different alleles
What is Heterozygous?
100
A number that describes the likelihood that an event will occur.
What is Probability?
200
The study of inherited traits
What is Genetics?
200
A version of a gene
What is an Allele?
200
A threadlike structure within the nucleus that is passed from one generation to the next.
What is a Chromosome?
200
Having two of the same alleles
What is Homozygous?
200
Only one parent produces genetically identical offspring.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
300
A genetically determined characteristic
What is a Trait?
300
Only one copy of a this allele must be present to effect a trait.
What is Dominant?
300
The combination of alleles
What is Genotype?
300
The physical result of the genotype
What is Phenotype?
300
This kind of cell
What is Bacteria?
400
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is Inheritance (or Heredity)?
400
Two copies of these alleles must be present to effect a trait.
What is Recessive?
400
The difference in genes between members of the same species.
What is Genetic Variation?
400
A change in the DNA of gene
What is a mutation?
400
Two halves of a chromosome.
What is a Chromatid?
500
How genes cause traits
What is by making protein?
500
How many alleles this flower has for flower color
What is 2?
500
What DNA stands for
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
500
A grid used to calculate the genotype and phenotype probabilities of offspring of a cross
What is a Punnett Square?
500
The kind of reproduction that results in genetically different offspring (babies).
What is Sexual Reproduction?