Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Get on Your Thinking Cap
Bonus
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
What are the allele versions of a hair line
What is Widow's peak or no widow's peak (can also be called an Eddie)
100
What information is absolutely essential to a Punnett Square?
What is the parents genotype
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 allele that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele"
What is dominant
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
What does a cross that ends with a Phenotypic ratio of 100% Red mean? R = red r = white
What is that the Punnett Square would have a cross that ends with R in all the squares therefore showing the dominant trait in each cross being Red
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 "The different forms of a gene."
What is allele
300

What are punnett squares used for?

to determine the genotype of an offspring 

300

For each genotype below determine what phenotypes would be seen.

Purple flowers are dominant to white flowers 

PP____

Pp____

pp____

PP: purple 

Pp: purple 

pp: white 


300
R is for Red and r is for white. What is the cross of a homozygous dominant and a heterozygous?
What is RR x Rr
400

Scientists use a ____ letter to show that a gene is dominant

uppercase

400

Scientists use a ____ letter to show that a gene is recessive 

lowercase 

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

For each genotype below determine what phenotypes would be seen.

Bobtails in cats are recessive to long tails

TT___

Tt___

tt___

TT: long tail

Tt: long tail

tt: bobtail

400
What is the phenotypic ratio of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)
What is 100% Red
500
What is "An organism’s genetic make-up or allele combinations."
What is genotype
500
What is "An organism’s physical appearance or visible traits."?
What is phenotype
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
What is the genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 100% Rr
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