What Does That Mean?
An organism's genetics
What is genotype
The color of someone's eyes with the genotype BB
What is brown?
Set sets of similar but not identical chromosomes.
What are homologous chromosomes
The monk who first defined the principles of genetics
Who is Mendel
A cell that has 2 copies of each chromosome, one from each parent
What is diploid
The color of someone's eyes the genotype bb
What is blue?
Copies of a chromosome that are usually identical
What are sister chromaitds
The fusion of ale and female gametes
What is fertilization
Segments of DNA that code for a protein
What is a gene
The color of someone's eyes the the genotype Bb
What is Brown
Where each set of homologous chromosome comes from
What are parents
The probability that the recessive trait will be expressed in an offspring if both parents are heterozygous
What is 25%
The type of cells made during meiosis
What are gametes
The color of a child's eyes whose parents both have blue eyes
What is blue
What cells become after homologous chromosomes are divided into two separate cells
What is haploid
This term is named for the Greek word meaning "to become less"
What is Meiosis
What are alleles
The genotype of a person who has brown eyes but has a parent with blue eyes
What is Bb or heterozygous
What causes sister chromatids to be different after meiosis
what is crossing over
What genes that are close to each other are more likely to be than genes that are farther away
What is linked