Vocabulary
What is an "allele"?
The letters that represent traits. (Gametes)
A brown eyed mom (Bb) and blue eyed dad (bb) make a baby, what percentage of their children will have brown eyes?
50%
Carbohydrates provide us with?
Quick/fast/short term energy
What is the difference between homozygous and heterozygous?
Homozygous = same; heterozygous = different
Hair color in pigs is an incomplete dominant trait. A black pig (BB) and a white pig (WW) have a piglet, what percent of their piglets will be grey?
100%
Which biomolecule acts as insulation and is found in the cell membrane?
Lipids
The word for the way an organism looks or behaves...
Phenotype
What are the possible gametes for the below parent cross:
AABB x aabb
AaBb
This helper speeds up reactions in our body by either breaking things down or putting them together.
Enzymes
An organism will only express the recessive trait when it is?
Homozygous
What are the possible gametes for the below parent cross
AaBB x aabb
AaBb and aaBb
What is another word for Enzyme? And what does it do?
Catalyst/Catalyze - speeds up a reaction