The alleles for a homozygous dominant parent. (use the letter )
What is BB
100
The mathematical chance that an event will occur
What is probability
100
A ________ trait covers up other traits
What is dominant
100
A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring
What is trait
200
Used capital letters to represent dominant alleles and lowercase letters to represent ___________ alleles
What is recessive?
200
The form of a gene that masks, or hides, the recessive allele
What is the dominant allele
200
A punnett square is helpful in predicting both the ________ and ____________ of the offspring
What is genotype; phenotype
200
A _____________ trait is masked if the dominant trait is present.
What is recessive
200
the study of heredity
What is genetics
300
Different forms of the same gene
What are alleles
300
The form of a gene that is hidden when the dominant allele is present
What is the recessive allele
300
What information is needed to do a punnett square
What is the parents genotype
300
Using the letter B, what alleles would a homozygous recessive parent have
What is bb
300
Used to show all the possible combinations of alleles from parents
What is punnett square
400
The century in which Mendel did his research
What is the 19th century (1800s)
400
Having both dominant and recessive, or different traits
What is heterozygous
400
R is for red and r is for white. The cross of a homozygous dominant parent and a heterozygous parent would be?
What is RR x Rr
400
One parent is homozygous dominant, the other parent homozygous recessive, all their children will show the ______________ trait
What is dominant
400
The form of a trait that an organism displays (what is seen)
What is phenotype
500
Why Mendel chose to study pea plants rather than something else?
What is pea plants have many traits that come in only two forms.
500
Having the same allele; represented by two of the same letters
What is homozygous
500
In punnett square, a small letter(t) stands for a _________ allele and a capital letter (T) stands for a ____________ allele
What is recessive; dominant
500
Short in pea plants is a recessive trait. One homozygous tall parent and one homozygous short parent will produce plants that only have the ____________ trait.
What is dominant
500
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait; another way to say heterozygous