It's Hip To Be a "Square"
Cloudy with a Chance of Mutations
Me Oh Meiosis!
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100
It's the tool that scientists use to find the likelihood of a trait being passed down.
What is a Punnett Square
100
It is the genetic mutation that causes blood not to clot.
What is hemophilia?
100
It is the number of cells that you get at the end of meiosis if you start with one.
What is four
100
You would use this word to describe the genotype "BB"
What is homozygous
100
The name of the male sex-cell
What is a sperm
200
The term for a gene that is more likely to be passed to offspring.
What is Dominant
200
It is the specific chromosome that is linked to male-only genetic disorders.
What is the Y chromosome
200
It is what's shared between two chromosomes when they "pair and share"
What are genes or genetic material/code
200
You would use this big word to describe the genotype "Dd"
What is heterozygous
200
The total number of chromosomes pairs in a normal human cell
What is 23
300
It's the percentage chance of getting any one offspring in a Punnett Square.
What is 25%
300
The mutation that involves having a 3rd twenty-first chromosome.
What is Down Syndrome
300
It is the total number of times that a single cell splits in two during meiosis
What is three
300
You would use this term to describe someone who has a heterozygous trait
What is a carrier
300
He is known as the father of modern genetics and heredity
Who is Gregor Mendel
400
What you would call the offspring that has the same traits passed down over and over again for many generations.
What is a purebred
400
It is the name of a genetic tree used to see the likelihood of a genetic mutation being passed down in families
What is a pedigree
400
It is the amount of chromosomes left in a cell at the end of meiosis
What is half as many (or 23 halves for a human)
400
You would use this term to describe a picture of all of an organism's chromosomes
What is a karyotype
400
It is the name of the first cloned sheep, currently dead and stuffed in Edinburgh, Scotland
Who is "Dolly"
500
It is the term for when an offspring shares both parents' traits at the same time.
What is Codominance
500
It is the mutation which causes cells to receive less oxygen than normal.
What is Sickle-Cell Disease
500
It is the first step of meiosis
What is the chromosomes make copies of themselves
500
You would use this big word to describe half of a chromosome
What is Chromatid
500
It is the term for every single gene and piece of DNA in a person's cell
What is a Genome
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