Mendel
Traits and Inheritance
Punnett Squares
Genetics Problems
Vocabulary
100
This is the plant that Mendel studied.
What is the pea plant?
100
This allele is the allele that can be masked or hidden.
What is recessive?
100
This is where you write the genotype of the parents.
What is on the top and the left side?
100
A tall plant (TT) is crossed with a tall plant (Tt). This is the chance that the offspring will be short.
What is 0%
100
This is the name of the tool used to predict genetic probabilities.
What is a Punnett Square
200
What was Mendel's first name
What is Gregor?
200
This is the visible characteristics of an organism.
What is phenotype?
200
The individual squares represent the genotypes of this.
What are offspring?
200
A white flower (rr) is crossed with a red flower (RR). This is the chance that their offspring will be homozygous dominant.
What is 0%
200
This is the passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is heredity?
300
This is when a sperm from a flower fertilizes the same flower.
What is self pollination?
300
This is the actual combination of alleles.
What is genotype.
300
This is the heterozygous genotype for dimples (D)
What is Dd?
300
A homozygous dominant brown mouse is crossed with a heterozygous brown mouse (tan is the recessive color). This is the chance their offspring will be brown.
What is 100%
300
These are the different forms of a gene
What are alleles?
400
These are four ways that cross pollination can occur.
What is insects, animals, wind, and people.
400
This kind of letter represents a dominant allele.
What is a capital letter?
400
If you cross two homozygous dominant individuals, this is the probability that their child will be homozygous dominant.
What is 100%?
400
Two heterozygous red flowers (white flowers are recessive) are crossed. This is the chance that their offspring will be white.
What is 25%
400
This was the early belief that the traits of parents were mixed together in the offspring.
What is blending inheritance.
500
If a true breeding purple flower plant self pollinates, this will be the color of the offspring.
What is purple?
500
In order to see the recessive trait, what must the genotype be?
What is homozygous recessive.
500
A true-breeding (or pure) parent would have this kind of genotype.
What is homozygous?
500
Curly hair is recessive, and straight hair is dominant. A woman with curly hair marries a man who is heterozygous for straight hair. This is the chance their child will be heterozygous.
What is 50%
500
This is a feature that has different forms in a population such as hair color.
What is a characteristic?
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