Inheritance
The combination of letters used to represent a set of alleles.
What is a genotype?
A quality or characteristic of a living thing
What is a trait?
G=Green g=yellow
GG x gg
Percentage of green offspring?
100%
Strands of DNA in a cell’s nucleus that carry the code for the organism’s inherited characteristics
What is a chromosome?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid is short for what acronym?
What is DNA?
The less powerful gene, overpowered by the dominant gene if one is present (Represented by a lowercase letter)
What is the recessive allele?
A section of DNA on a chromosome that determines a particular inherited characteristic
What is a gene?
T=tall t=short
Tt x Tt
Percentage of short plants
25%
The number of chromosomes in each cell
23 pairs, 46 total
The color of emerald
What is Green?
One of each alleles (one dominant one recessive)
What is Heterozygous?
Two parents contribute genetic information to produce unique offspring
What is sexual reproduction?
F= freckles f= no freckles
Ff x Ff
Percentage of offspring with freckles?
75%
Located on the chromosome and code for different traits
What are genes?
The tallest plant
What is bamboo?
Two of the same alleles (Two dominant or two recessive)
What is homozygous?
The three effects that a mutation can have
What is harmful, neutral and beneficial?
B= brown hair b= blonde hair
Bb x Bb
Percentage of homozygous offspring?
50%
What chromosomes are made of
What is DNA & Proteins?
The name of the galaxy that hold our planet
What is the Milky Way?
The father of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
All the genes of an organism
What is a genome?
Gg x Gg
Percentage heterozygous?
50%
What a change in the DNA will result in
What is a mutation?
Alexander Graham Bell invented this
What is the telephone?