Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Get on Your Thinking Cap
Mutations
Punnett Squares
100
 "The scientific study of heredity"
What is genetics
100
 "The passing of traits from parents to offspring"
What is heredity
100
Double helix
What is DNA?
100
Insertion of bases not a mutiple of 3
What is a frameshift mutation?
100
 " a tool used in genetics to predict the chances of a specific genetic outcome"
What is the Punnett Square
200
 "The entire set of genetic information for an organism. All of the genes in an organism"
What is the genome
200
 "An allele that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele"
What is dominant
200
Example of multiple allele inheritance in humans
What is the ABO blood type?
200
Example:  trisomy 21 which is identified by karyotyping 
What is non dysjunction?
200
What does a cross that ends with a Phenotypic ratio of 100% Red mean? R = red r = white
What is that the Punnett Square would have a cross that ends with R in all the squares therefore showing the dominant trait in each cross being Red
300
 "The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait"
What is a gene
300
 "The different forms of a gene."
What is allele
300
A red flower is crossed with a white flower and yields a pink flower.
What is incomplete dominance?
300
The base "G" is added to  ATTGGTTAAA
What is insertion?
300
R is for Red and r is for white. What is the cross of a homozygous dominant and a heterozygous?
What is RR x Rr
400
 "Traits or characteristics that are determined by an organism’s DNA that was inherited from their parents"
What is inherited traits
400
 "A characteristic that an organism gets during its lifetime that is not determined by its DNA"
What is an acquired characterisitic
400
Explain the difference between HH, Hh and hh.
What is HH: homozygous dominant Hh: heterozygous hh: homozygous recessive
400
Original :  AAATTGCTT 


Mutated:  AAAGTTGCTT

What is insertion?
400
phenotypic ratio of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)
What is 1:0
500
 "An organism’s genetic make-up or allele combinations."
What is genotype
500
 "An organism’s physical appearance or visible traits."?
What is phenotype
500
 "father of genetics"
Who is Gregor Mendel
500
One cause of genetic diversity 
What is mutation?
500
genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 1:0 Rr
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