Traits and Reproduction

Traits of Spiders

100

This trait can be dense or sparse.

Bristle

200

This trait can be stuns or kills.

Venom

300

This trait can be low, medium or high.

Silk flexibility

400

This body color trait is C3C3.

Colorless

500

On a whiteboard, prove what type of spiders will produce offspring with 100% silk flexibility.

You have to have a spider of F1F1 gene version with a spider of F2F2 gene version. This way, any time they mate, they will only make F1F2 gene version spiders which will produce medium silk flexibility every time.

Reproduction

100

This type of reproduction requires two parents.

Sexual reproduction

200

What is variation?

Any difference in traits between individual organisms.

300

These two cells are involved in sexual reproduction.

Egg cell and sperm cell

400

This is the name of the process that involves two reproductive cells. 

Fertilization

500

Please describe the process in which we get our two gene copies.

The answer should sound like: Each parent randomly passes on one of the two copies of each gene to its offspring. Each offspring, therefore, receives two copies of each gene—one from each parent.

Inheritance

100

These structures code for proteins.

Genes

200

These structures are shaped like the letter X.

Chromosomes

300

These specifically connect or do not connect to determine traits. 

Protein molecules

400

This is specific to an individual organism. 

Trait

500

This is specific to a species. 

Feature

Genes and Such

100

This means two of the same gene version.

Homozygous

200

This means two different gene versions.

Heterozygous

300

This genetic disorder results in the inability for blood to clot.

Hemophilia

400

What is a mutation?

A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait.

500

What is one way to help people with hemophilia?

Inject proteins or gene therapy

Cells

100

Where does your DNA live and where are those instructions to build the specific proteins you need to look like you?

In your nucleus.

200

What do the Ribosomes do?

Ribosomes create proteins.

300

What does the Endoplasmatic Reticulum do?

The Endoplasmatic Reticulum transports proteins across the cell.

400

What are the TWO jobs of the mitochondria?

One job of the mitochondria is to burn food to create energy. The second job is to store the energy molecules and use them in the cell.

500

Name all 7 parts of the cell.

Ribosomes, Mitochondria, Nucleus, Endoplasmatic Reticulum, Golgi Appartus, Lysosomes, and Cell Membrane.