Punnett squares
Inherited & Acquired Traits
Genotypes
Phenotypes
Homozygous or Heterozygous?
Random
100
What are the potential genotypes of the offspring? 
BB and Bb
100
Eye Color
Inherited
100
What percentages of the genotypes will be heterozygous?
100%
100
What is the dominant phenotype?
White fur
100
hh
Homozygous
100
What does the prefix "hetero" mean?
Different
200
What percentage of the offspring will have the dominant trait? 
75%
200
Freckles
Inherited
200
What percentage of the offspring will be homozygous dominant?
25%
200
What is the dominant phenotype?
Green
200
Ff
Heterozygous
200
Who is the father of modern genetics?
Gregor Mendel
300
What are all of the potential genotypes?
AA, Aa, and aa
300
Tattoos
Acquired
300
What percentage of the offspring will be recessive? 
50%
300
What is the dominant phenotype? 
Blue Flowers
300
Give me a Heterozygous Genotype?
Answers will vary but it should contain one capital and one lower case letter.
300
A scientist breeds a tall plant with a short plant. All of the offspring are short. What can be determined?
The short plant height is the dominant trait.
400
What percentage of the offspring will be heterozygous?
50%
400
Which type of trait do we have at birth?
Inherited
400
Give me a homozygous recessive genotype.
Answers may vary but it must be two lowercase letters.
400
What is the recessive phenotype?
White Flowers
400
Give me a Homozygous Dominant Genotype
Answers will vary but it should contain two capital letters.
400
Give me a homozygous dominant genotype.
Answers may vary but it must be two uppercase letters.
500
Fill in the other parent's genotypes
Dd
500
Which type of trait cannot be passed on to offspring?
Acquired
500
Two fireflies have hundreds offspring. All offspring have the exact same genotype: Gg. What genotype must the parents have for this to be possible?
One must be GG and one must be gg
500
The shaded shapes represent the phenotype of straight hair. Do you think that it is recessive or dominant?
Recessive
500
Give me a Homozygous Recessive Genotype
Answers may vary but it must be two lowercase letters.
500
If a scientist breeds a black dog and a brown dog. Which outcome would suggest that the brown fur is dominant?
All (or most) of the offspring are brown.