Mendel with a P
Gregor Mendel used this typ of plant to study different characteristics
What is a pea plant?
An organism's physical appearance is called this.
What is a phenotype?
What the DNA does in the first step of protein synthesis.
What is unzip?
Any change in a gene or chromosome is called this.
What is a mutation?
Mendel used T to show the dominant allele for height, meaning tall. He used this letter to show the recessive allele.
What is t?
This is the term that refers to the physical characteristics that are studied in genetics.
What is a trait?
The order of nitrogen bases along a gene determines this.
What is the genetic code?
Name 3 ways a mutation can occur
What is insertion, deletion and substitution?
The notation TT or AA to a geneticist means there are this many dominant alleles in a genotype.
What is 2 (two)?
An organism's genetic type is called this.
What is a genotype?
The order of bases along a gene determines the order in which these are put together to form a protein.
What is amino acids?
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is called this.
What is homozygous?
This is the percentge of producing a tall pea plant from a genetic cross between two hybrid tall pea plants
What is 50%?
Two different forms of a gene are called this.
What are alleles?
What do the nitrogen bases A & T represent?
What is Adendine and Thymine?
If this type of allele is present, its trait will appear in the organism.
What is dominant?
Gregor Mendel, in addition to studying pea plants, was this religious leader.
What is a monk or priest?
An organism with two different alleles is called this.
What is a heterozygous?
What do the nitrogen bases C & G represent?
What is Cytosine and Guanine?
Genes are carried from the parent to the offspring on structures called this.
What are chromosomes?