Genetic Vocabulary
Punnett Squares
Incomplete Dominance
Blood Types and Disorders
Pedigree
100
This is the term for someone's physical appearance.
What is phenotype?
100
The letter code of a hybrid using "e" as a gene for eye color.
What is "Ee"?
100
Incomplete dominance is a type of ______ cross.
What is a monohybrid?
100

The 4 main blood types.

A, B, AB, and O.

100

This type of graph shows how different members of a family are related.

What is a family tree?

200
A term for the two possible outcomes of a trait. We symbolize these using paired letters.
What is an allele?
200
What percentage do each of the portions of the Punnett's Square represent?
What is 25%
200
Incomplete dominance causes a _____ of traits.
What is a mix?
200
ii codes for this...
What is the O blood type?
200

A trait an individual may have that is completely unique due to a change in the way their gene was coded.

What is a mutation?

300
The term for an organism that possess two recessive traits, for example "rr" for red hair.
What is homozygous recessive?
300
Who is the scientist who first used the concept of heredity to map out how traits are passes on from generation to generation. (Hint: We use his work with pea plants when we use Punnett's Sqaures).
Who is Gregor Mendel?
300
Red flowers are planted near yellow ones. If both traits are dominant, the flowers will be this color.
What is orange?
300

The rarest blood type.

What is AB?

300

The term given for traits which are linked to the X chromosome.

What is a sex linked trait?

400
The term used to describe hybrids.
What is heterozygous?
400
A dog gives birth to a puppy which has the dominant trait for brown coat, 2 puppies that are hybrids with brown fur, and then a puppy with the recessive trait of grey fur. What is the genotypic ratio?
What is 1:2:1?
400
The percentage of organisms with a recessive trait resulting from an incomplete dominance cross.
What is 0%.
400
+ and - are types of this.
What is Rh factor?
400
The term given to someone who possess an allele for a trait, but does not exhibit it.
What is a carrier?
500
This occurs when there is an extra autosome within the 21st chromosomal pair.
What is Down's Syndrome (Trisomy-21)?
500
The term for a Punnett's Square that looks at two traits simultaneously.
What is a dihybrid cross?
500
The term given to an organism that contains two different alleles for the same trait.
What is a hybrid?
500
The resulting blood type of a child who's parents are IAIA and IBIB.
What is AB?
500
A trait commonly found in European Royalty, this trait is thought to have been a mutation in Queen Victoria's DNA.
What is hemophilia?
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