DNA and Hereditary
DNA
What is genetic material?
The stronger allele.
What is a dominant allele.
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is making an observation.
Phenotypes
What are an organism’s physical appearance or visible traits?
Energy
What is the ability to do work?
Made of proteins and DNA.
What are Chromosomes?
An allele that shows effect only if there are two copies.
What is a recessive gene?
Inference.
What is attempting to explain what is happening based of previous knowledge.
The passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring.
What is Heredity?
Energy stored to be released later.
Potential energy.
Shape of DNA
What is a helix or spiral?
The version of genes that an organism has that is symbolized by letters.
What is a genotype?
A model.
What is a physical representation of complex objects or processes.
One set of instructions on a strand of DNA for an inherited trait.
What is a gene?
Kinetic energy
The energy of moving objects.
The process of copying a DNA strand to make another one.
What is replication?
Heterozygous
What is one allele for a trait being dominant and the other is recessive.
Deals with numbers of amounts.
What is quantitative.
One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a certain characteristic.
What is an allele?
4 out of the 6 forms of energy.
What is Mechanical, Radiant, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear, or Thermal. (4 of 6)
RNA in making proteins.
What is carrying amino acids to create ribosomes?
Both alleles are the same, dominant or recessive.
What is being homozygous?
Using questions and observations to study the natural world without using interference or manipulation.
A scientific investigation.
In a cross of parents that are elite for different traits, only one form of the trait will appear in the next generation.
What is the rule of dominance?
A car changes chemical energy into _____ energy.
What is mechanical and thermal.