Vocab
This is the passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is heredity?
The different forms that a gene may have.
What are alleles?
Th study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles is this science.
This tool is used to possibly predict the outcome of an offspring from two parents.
What is a punnett square?
Who has dominant hair color in our class?
Who is Tatiana, Monica and Jules?
This monk worked with pea plants to discover an understanding of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendell?
Capital letters usually indicate this type of trait.
What is dominant?
Lower case letters indicate this type of trait.
What is recessive?
If a father has brown eyes, and the mother has brown eyes, what will the child's eyes be most likely?
What are brown eyes?
Who has recessive eye color in our class
Who are Maggie and Mrs. Spivey
This type of trait can still be present on the chromosomes, but the chances of it appearing phenotypically on the individual is rare.
What is recessive?
This is what is seen physcially.
What is phenotype?
This is what is not seed, but is there on the chromosome.
What is genotype?
This genetic disorder is found most often in males and could be life threatening.
What is hemophilia?
Brown eyes are an example of this type of trait.
What is a dominant trait?
This is an organism with two alleles that are different.
What is heterozygous?
This is an organism with two alleles that are the same.
What is homozygous?
This genetic disorder is found most often in males and may cause confusion when picking out matching socks.
What is color blindness?
Blue eyes are an example of this type of trait.
What is a recessive trait?
Eye color is an example of a trait that is produced by a combination of many genes. This is known as what.
What is pollygenic inheritance?
When the offspring of two homozygous parents sho an intermediate phenotype, the inheritance is called what
This chromosome pair is found in which gender?
x and y
What is male?