Vocabulary
Reproduction that involves 2 parents
Human influence over inheriting specific traits
What is artificial selection?
What is mitosis?
A tool used to genetically cross 2 parents that show the probabilities (possible outcomes) of a specific trait
What is a Punnett Square?
He is called the father of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
a sperm cell and an egg cell are called
What is gametes?
What GMO stands for
What is genetically modified organisms?
This many parents are involved in asexual reproduction
The alleles of the ________ go on the outside of a Punnett Square
What is the parent?
The letter representations of traits (HH, Hh, hh) are called this
What are alleles or genotypes?
The physical expression of a trait
What is phenotype?
In this type of breeding, humans get to influence which traits are passed on to the offspring
What is selective breeding?
Sexual reproduction results in what type of offspring
What is genetically similar?
The Punnett Square was named after this scientist
Who is Punnett?
Mitosis is the process of cell division for these types of cells
What are the body cells?
A specific characteristic
What is a trait?
Humans have been selectively breeding this organism since the beginning of civilization
What are dogs?
The process in which cells make copies and then divide into 2 new cells is called
What is mitosis?
Crossing a homozygous dominant parent with a homozygous recessive parent will yield what results
What is heterozygous offspring?
The passing of traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
An allele pairing that has the exact same cases
What is homozygous or purebred?
The first GMO was made using this substance
What is human insulin?
In meiosis, the cell division process results in this many new cells.
What is 4?
This hides behind the dominant allele
What is the recessive allele?
The study of heredity
What is genetics?