Vocabulary
The passing on of a physical characteristic is called what?
What is Heredity
A Punnet square can be defined as what?
What is a model to determine the percent of difference in the offspring.
In heredity what is the order of passing down traits?
what is grandparents to parents to offspring
This combination of genes AA is referred to as what?
What is dominant?
This basic unit of heredity that controls a specific trait.
What is a gene or allele?
The definition of trait is?
What is a characteristic of a person
In a Punnet Square, these are the two types of traits that are represented using capital and lowercase letters.
What is Dominant or Recessive
The type of reproduction that results in variation of traits.
What is during sexual reproduction?
This combination of genes Bb is referred to as what?
What is Dominant
This type of reproduction creates an exact copy of its genes.
What is asexual reproduction?
Genetic variation can be defined as?
What is a difference in inherited traits between parents and offspring.
What are the possible combinations of genes that will result in a dominant phenotype.
What is Dominant-Dominant
or
Dominant-Recessive
This is the percentage of DNA that is passed down to you from your parents.
What is 50% from mom and 50% from dad?
This combination of genes cc is referred to as what?
What is recessive?
The scientific word of a trait that is physically presented.
What is a phenotype?
An allele can be defined as what.
What is a variation of a specific gene?
These are the possible combinations of genes that will result in a recessive phenotype.
What is the only way for a recessive phenotype to occur is to have 2 recessive genes/alleles?
What is the Essential question for this section?
How are traits passed form parent to offspring?
When writing in the results of a punnet square which trait should be written first?
What is Dominant if is dominant-dominant or dominant-recessive
and if it's recessive-recessive it doesn't matter.
This is the part of our body where genes can be found.
What is the nucleus of our cells?
This is the scientific word for what you look like.
What is phenotype?
This is the scientific word for both genes.
This is how many alleles are required for each trait.
What is 2 alleles?
Between Brown Eyes and Blue eyes, which one the the dominant trait?
What is brown eyes
What are we working towards in this unit?
Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.