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 is a homozygous dominant genotype?

What is both genes are dominant?

What is two capital letters?

What is HH?

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 percent of an offspring will be dominant if: Parent one:"ii" Parent 2: "ii"

What is 0%?

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

What is a heterozygous genotype?

What is one allele is dominant and one is recessive?

What is one capital and one lower case letter?

What is Hh?

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

What is the percent of having a heterozygous offspring if: Parent 1: "Hh" Parent 2: "Hh"

What is 50%?

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 is a homozygous recessive genotype?

What is both genes are recessive?

What is two lowercase letters?

What is hh?

300
Acquired or Inherited? Leaf Shape
What is inherited
300

What is the percent of having an offspring with a dominant genotype if: Parent 1: "mm" Parent 2: "MM"

What is 100%?

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
What is the haploid number of human cells (gametes)

What is 23?

400
Acquired or Inherited? Athletic ability
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
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

How many chromosomes are in a human body cell?

What is 46?

500
What is the genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 100% Rr
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