Heredity
Punnett Squares
Inherited Trait vs. Learned Behaviors
100
the passing of genetic material from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
100
A capital letter expresses this trait.
What is dominant?
100
A physical characteristic that is passed from a parent to their baby (offspring) is an inherited trait.
What is an inherited trait?
200
Small sections of chromosomes that determine traits.
What are genes?
200
A lower case letter expresses this trait.
What is recessive?
200
An example of an inherited trait.
What is eye color, height, hair color etc.
300
When one trait covers or masks another form of the trait.
What is dominance?
300
BB and Bb Punnett Square gives this percentage of the dominant and recessive trait.
What is 100% dominant and 0% recessive?
300
Inherited behaviors are called _________.
What are instincts?
400
Trait that is hidden or masked if the dominant form of the trait is present.
What is recessive?
400
Rr and Rr Punnett Square shows this percentage of the dominant and recessive trait.
What is 75% dominant and 25% recessive?
400
An example of an instinct.
What is migrating south for winter, hibernation, killer instinct etc?
500
Exact genetic makeup of an organism.
What is genotype?
500
B=brown eyes and b=blue eyes, what does it mean if someone's genotype is Bb?
What is they have brown eyes, but they carry the trait for blue eyes?
500
Explanation of and example of a learned behavior.
What is a behavior that is not inherited from parents, but is learned? Ex. anything that can be learned?
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