Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Get on Your Thinking Cap
Anything Genetics
Punnett Squares
100
What is the word that means "The scientific study of heredity"
What is genetics
100
What is the word that means "The passing of traits from parents to offspring"
What is heredity
100

Ralph has homozygous type B blood and his wife Rachel has homozygous type A blood. What is the probability that their child will have type AB blood?

100%

100

What traits "overshadow" other traits when doing Punnett squares that are often a capital letter?

Dominant

100
What is a "tool used in genetics to predict the chances of a specific genetic outcome"
What is the Punnett Square
200

What word means "The entire set of genetic information for an organism. All of the genes in an organism"

What is the genome

200

What word means "An expression of traits using capital or lowercase letters (AA, Aa, aa)

What is genotype

200

Why can the height of a person be considered inherited but environmentally influenced?

What is the height of a person is based on genetics but things like nutrition play a role in how tall the person actually gets.

200
What is the scientific word used for "children" in a Punnett Square?
What is "offspring"
200

In fruit flies, red eyes are dominant (E). White eyes are recessive (e). If the female fly has white eyes and the male fly has homozygous dominant red eyes, what percentage of offspring will also have white eyes?

0 %

300

What word means "The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait"

What is a gene

300

What word is defined as physical traits?

Phenotype

300

What is an allele?

Alternative form of a gene 

300

What is the difference between incomplete and codominance? 

Incomplete results in a blended phenotype (red and white make pink) and codominance results in both phenotypes being expressed (red and white make both red and white)

300

If two people who are both carriers for a genetically inherited fatal recessive disease decide to become parents, what will be the odds that their children will also be carriers?

50%

400

What is the word that means "Traits or characteristics that are determined by an organism’s DNA that was inherited from their parents"?

What is inherited traits

400

What is the word that means "Having the same alleles (AA, aa)

Homozygous

400
Explain the difference between HH, Hh and hh.
What is HH: homozygous dominant Hh: heterozygous hh: homozygous recessive
400

What are all the different blood types?

A, B, AB, O

400

What is the phenotype of the offspring of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)

What is 100% Red

500

What is "Any change in the DNA.

Mutation

500

What is "Different alleles from each parent (Aa)

What is heterozygous

500
Who is called the "father of genetics"?
What is Gregor Mendel
500
Can you know a person's genotype if they are dominant in their phenotype?
What is no because they could be RR or Rr
500

Cross a female with normal color vision with a man who has colorblindness. What is the probability that their offspring are colorblind?

0%

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