Vocabulary
A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring.
What are traits?
Gregor Mendel studied these organisms.
What are pea plants?
We use these to represent dominant alleles.
What are capital letters?
The phenotype of a person with the genotype Cc.
What is cleft chin?
A unit that determines traits.
What is a gene?
Mendel is often called the father of this type of science.
Mendel a menudo se llama el padre de este tipo de ciencia.
What is Genetics?
¿Qué es la genética?
We use these to represent recessive alleles.
What are lowercase letters?
The possible genotypes of a person with a straight thumb.
What are Ss and SS?
The study of heredity.
What is Genetics?
Mendel made three important conclusions about genetics. Name one of them.
Refer to Mrs. L for correct answers.
Punnett Squares help us predict the ______ and ________ of offspring.
What are phentoype and genotype?
The possible phenotypes and genotypes of offspring when a man with FF marries a woman with ff.
What are free earlobes? What is Ff?
The form of a trait that an organism displays; its physical appearance.
What is phenotype?
Mendel made three important conclusions about genetics. Name one of them.
Refer to Mrs. L for correct answers.
Like flipping a coin, the chance of inheriting a certain genotype and phenotype is random. We use ________ to determine the mathematical possibility that an event will occur.
What is probability?
The probability (%) that offspring will have a chin with no cleft if the parents' genotypes are Cc and Cc.
La probabilidad (%) de que la descendencia tenga una barbilla sin hendidura si los genotipos de los padres son Cc y Cc.
What is 25%?
¿Qué es el 25%?
The alleles of a gene an organism contains; its genetic makeup.
What is genotype?
Before Mendel's work, people believed this theory which stated that traits from parents just BLENDED together in the offspring.
What is blending inheritance?
The other terms used for homozygous and heterozygous.
What are purebred and hybrid?
Based on Figure 11.12:
A. The genotypes and phenotypes of the parents. B. The probability that their offspring will have free earlobes.
C. The probability of attached earlobes.
A. What is Ff and ff?
B. What is 50%?
C. What is 50%?