Vocabulary
Mendel's Laws
Genetics
Who's your daddy
(& mommy)?
Follow the pedigree
100
Two of the same alleles are in the genetic trait
What is homozygous?
100
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is
What is homozygous?
100
Factors that control traits
What are genes?
100
If a homozygous black guinea pig (BB) is crossed with a homozygous white guinea pig (bb), the probability for the offspring to be black is
What is 100%?
100
A chart that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait
What is a pedigree?
200
Two different alleles are present in the genetic trait
What is heterozygous?
200
The allele/trait that is hidden by the other or not in control
What is recessive trait?
200
These always come in pairs and contain DNA
What are chromosomes?
200
A chart to predict the results of genetic crosses
What is a Punnett square?
200
A picture of the chromosomes in a cell
What is a karyotype?
300
The physical appearance of an individual
What is phenotype?
300
An organisms genetic makeup is
What is genotype?
300
This is when chromosome pairs seperate and are distributed into new sex cells
What is meiosis?
300
When roan cattle are mated, 25% of the offspring are red, 50% are roan, and 25% are white. Upon examination, it can be seen that the coat of a roan cow consists of both red and white hairs. This trait is one controlled by
What is codominant alleles?
300
In a pedigree, a male is represented by
What is a square?
400
The type of in heritance shown when a red flowering plant is crossed with a white flowering plant and only pink flowering plants are produced
What is incomplete dominance?
400
Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait a
What is hybrid?
400
Different forms of a gene are called
What is an allele?
400
The 23rd pair of chromosomes that differ in males and females are called
What is sex chromosomes?
400
Two organisms that are genetically identical is a result of
What is cloning?
500
Any change in a gene or a chromosome
What is a mutation?
500
To study different characteristics in his genetics experiments, Gregor Mendel did this to his pea plants.
What is cross pollinated?
500
The pairing of __________ in DNA is the key feature that allows DNA to be copied
What is nitrogen bases?
500
The combination of sex chromosomes of a male
What is XY?
500
To identify the DNA sequences of every gene was the goal of
What is the Human Genome Project?
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