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

If an organism has both a dominant and recessive allele, it is considered to be what?

What is heterozygous

200

What is the trait responsible for hiding or masking the other weaker trait?

What is dominant

200

Other than studying genetics, what was Gregor Mendel's other occupation?

He was a monk in a monastery

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

The segments of DNA that are located on the chromosomes and is responsible for the passing of traits

What is a gene

300

What word is defined as the alternate form of a gene?

What is allele

300

What organism did Mendel use in his studies of genetics?

What were pea plants

300
Acquired or Inherited? Leaf Shape
What is inherited
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
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 "A characteristic that an organism gets during its lifetime that is not determined by its DNA"
What is an acquired characterisitic
400
Explain the difference between HH, Hh and hh.
What is HH: homozygous dominant Hh: heterozygous hh: homozygous recessive
400

Acquired or inherited? Playing a musical instrument

What is acquired

400
What is the phenotypic ratio of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)
What is 100% Red
500

The non-observable characteristics of a person's heredity is known as __________?

What is genotype

500

What is "An organism’s observable or visible traits."?

What is phenotype

500

Who is called the "father of genetics"?

Who 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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