Gregor Mendel
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Punnett Squares
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Mitosis
100

Gregor Mendel is known as what?

What is the father of genetics? 

100

The term used to describe the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring?

What is heredity? 

100

How many alleles go in each box within a Punnett Square?

What is 2?

100

How many cells are created after 1 cell division?

What is 2?

100

What is the purpose of the cell cycle?

What is for healing/repair, growth, and reproduction.
200

What was the organism that Mendel studied?

What are pea plants?
200

The term used to describe the different forms of a gene.

What is an allele?

200

What are the possible phenotypes of the offspring produced from a cross between a dog that is homozygous dominant for brown fur and a dog that is homozygous recessive for yellow fur?

What is brown fur?

200
Term used to describe the genetic makeup or alleles of an organism?

What is genotype?

200

What are the 4 phase mitosis in order?

What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?

300
Mendel controlled the fertilization of his pea plants by performing a few different steps. What steps did Mendel take to control the crosses of his pea plants?

What is cutting the stamens off the flowers and using a paint brush to transfer the pollen to the pistil? 

300

The term used to describe the physical characteristics of an organism.

What is phenotype?

300

What are the possible genotypes of the offspring produced from a cross between a heterozygous long wing fruit fly and a homozygous recessive short winged fruit fly.

What is Ll and ll?

300

What are the three different ways that probabilities are expressed in and provide examples.

What is a fraction (EX: 1/2), percent (EX: 50%), and ratio (EX:3:1)?

300

What types of cells in humans are created by the cell cycle?

What are body cells?

400

Mendel found that the allele for round seed shape was dominant over wrinkled seed shape. What letter should be used to represent the alleles for seed shape?

What is "R"?

400

What are the two terms that can be used interchangeably to describe an organism that has two different alleles for a trait?

What are hybrid and heterozygous?

400

What is the phenotypic ratio of the potential offspring produced by the cross between a purebred recessive blue eyed male and a hybrid brown eyed female?

What is 2:2?

400

A hybrid pea plant with purple flowers is crossed with a purebred pea plant with white flowers. What is the probability that the cross will produce homozygous recessive  offspring with white flowers?

What is 1/2 or 50%? 

400

In human body cells before the genetic material is replicated during the S phase there are how many chromosomes? After DNA replication how many sister chromosomes are there in the cell?

What is 46 chromosomes and 92 sister chromatids? 

500

What where the 7 traits that Mendel studied in pea plants?

What is stem height, flower color, flower position, pod shape, pod color, seed color, and seed shape?

500

What are the two terms that can be used interchangeably to describe an organism that has two of the same alleles for a trait?

What are purebred and homozygous? 

500

What is the genotypic ratio of the potential offspring of a cross between a homozygous dominant short hair cat and a heterozygous cat? (The two possible fur lengths are long and short)

What is 2:2:0?

500

There are two possible wing lengths in fruit flies, long and short. Short wings are dominant over long wings. What letters should be used to represent the alleles of wing length in fruit flies and what are the potential allele combinations?

What is the letter "S" and SS, Ss, and ss?

500

What is the main difference between the cell cycle in plants and animal cells?

What is the formation of the the cell plate during cytokinesis in plant cells?

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