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

Is natural hair color an acquired or inherited trait?

inherited

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

Why can some people taste the chemical PTC but not others?

What is that the trait for the tasting of PTC is inherited so not everyone will have that trait

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? 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
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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