Reproduction
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Punnett Squares
Genetics
100
What are the two types of reproduction?

Sexual and asexual

100

Who is Hailey Bieber's famous actor father?

Stephen Baldwin

100

A rocket ship blasting into space is an example of which law of motion?

third law - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

100

In a punnett square, there are four offspring boxes. Each box is worth how much? Answer as a % and a fraction

25% or 1/4
100

In sexual reproduction, how much DNA does each parent provide to the offspring?

50% or 1/2

200

Budding is an example of what type of reproduction?

Double points - what is one animal that does this form of reproduction?

Asexual reproduction


Double Points - Hydra, fungus, corals, and some worms

200

Double Points: What rapper-turned-actor stars on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit?

Ice-T

200

What is the name of the 'father' of genetics?

Gregor Mendel

200

If my genotype is BB, where B represents brown hair and b represent blonde hair, what is my phenotype?

Double points if you identify the special name given to genotype "BB" 

Brown hair

Double Points: Homozygous dominant

200

In asexual reproduction, the offspring is genetically _______ to the parent

identical or the same
300

What is the name of the very first cell that forms after fertilization?

Zygote

300

Which children's-movie series beginning in 2010 features three adopted girls, a 'villain', and small gibberish-speaking followers?

Fun Fact - it is Ms.Martinez's favorite movie

Despicable Me

300

What are the 4 nucleid acids in DNA?

Double points if you can name the special acid that is in RNA but not DNA

Adenin, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine

Double points: Uracil

300
What happens to the phenotype of an individual with heterozygous genotype?

The dominant allele is expressed in the appearance. The recessive hides but can come up in a future generation

300

What are the 2 main reasons that your phenotype may be different from your parents?

recessive alleles or mutations

400

Can sexual reproduction happen inside or outside of the body?

Trick Question - Both

400

Name at least 2 of the performers from the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime show.

Double points if you can name at least 4. 

Mary J Blige, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Dr.Dre, Anderson Paak (drums)

400

What does the word 'gibbous' mean?

More than half, less than full

400

In Mendel's experiments, he was working with pea plants. What did he call the offspring of tall and short pea plants?

Double points if you can explain why their offspring came out tall

Hybrids, we later call this heterozygous. 

Double points - tall was the dominant factor

400

What does the prefix phen- in phenotype mean?

Appearance

500

What are the 3 main types of asexual reproduction?

Double points: name the type of reproduction that Komodo Dragons can do

Budding, Regeneration, Binary Fission


Double Points: Agamogenesis or Parthenogenesis

500

Where was fried chicken invented? (Country)

Scotland

500

Name all of the planets in order from the center of the solar system outward. (there are 8 of them)

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

500

What is the name of the man who invented Punnett Squares?

Double points if you know his full first name.

RC Punnett

Double Points: Reginald 

500

If a genotype is called 'pure' (like in our mouse lab and in Mendel's experiments) what does that mean?

It is homozygous

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