The Basics
Men of Science
It's in the Genes
All Squared Up
Mixed Bag
100
The study of heredity.
What is genetics?
100
The Father of Genetics.

Who is Gregor Mendel?

100
Sexual reproduction produces offspring that are genetically _____________ to the parents.
What is Similar?
100
The genes that are hidden or covered up by another. 
What are recessive?
100
How traits are passed from parent to offspring.
What is through genes during reproduction?
200
DNA is located here.
What are in the chromosomes?
200

The scientist that first discovered that the number of guanine units is equal to the number of cytosine units, and the number of adenine units is equal to the number of thymine units.

Who is Erwin Chargaff?
200
Asexual reproduction produces offspring that are genetically ____________ to the parent.
What is identical?
200
The punnet square is used for this purpose.
What is to determine the outcome of genetic crossings in offspring?
200
Give two traits that could be inherited from a parent.
What are: hair color, eye color, height, skin color, freckles, genetic diseases, etc.?
300
The complete set of all DNA.
What is a genome?
300
The type of organism that Mendel used to first study heredity.
What are Pea Plants?
300
A trait that is passed down in the gene from the parent.
What is inherited?
300
A black chicken (BB) is crossed with a black chicken (BB). What percentage of offspring will be black?
What is 100%?
300
In a Punnet Square what the capital and lowercase letters stand for.
What is Capital letters = Dominant Traits and a Lower Case letters = Recessive Traits?
400
Inherited traits that children get from their parents.
What are genes.
400
With his partner Francis Crick, he won a Nobel Prize for his determination of the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is James Watson?
400
Learned skills or environmental factors that, along with your genes, makes you who you are.
What are acquired traits?
400
Having dimples is dominant (D). Not having dimples is recessive (d).  Both parents are heterozygous for the dominant trait. What percentage of the children will NOT have dimples?
What is 25%?
400
How many parents are involved in asexual reproduction?
One
500
The genetic make up of an individual, represented by a set of letters.
What is their genotype?
500

The only scientist in the bunch who was not a man, was never given the correct amount of honor for her work, and used the technique of X-ray crystallography to first see DNA. 

Who is Rosalind Franklin?
500
The four protein building blocks of our DNA and the base pair rule that determines their sequence.

What are Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Thymine (T) and Cytosine(C); and A-T....G-C?

500
Long ears are dominant (E) in rabbits. One parent is homozygous dominant for the long ear trait and the other is homozygous reccessive; list all the possible genotypes.
What is only "Ee".
500
Two dark brown rabbits have four offspring. Three of the offspring are dark and one is white; the genotype for these parents must be....
What is Dark brown is dominant and white fur is recessive, so both parents must be heterozygous? Bb
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