Vocabulary
What is the basic unit of life?
A cell
What percent is 5/10?
50%
What is a gene?
The basic unit of heredity.
What is the term for children of parents?
offspring
How do the offspring compare to the parents in asexual reproduction?
They are genetically identical
What does genotype mean?
It is the genetic makeup of an organism.
What percent is 1/4?
25%
What are chromosomes and where are they found?
It is how long strands of DNA are packaged in the nucleus.
What type of allele is always expressed?
How do the offspring compare to the parents in sexual reproduction?
They are genetically different. They are a mix of mom and dad.
It is the characteristics and traits of an organism that you can see.
If there are 10 deer and 2 die from infection what percent is left?
80%
What is an inherited trait?
A characteristic that is passed down from parent to offspring.
What type of allele must be present twice to be expressed?
a recessive allele
What is the term for how genetically different organisms may be?
genetic variation
What is an allele?
An allele is a version of a gene.
I have a 100 dollars and spend 35 dollars, what percent of my 100 dollars did I spend?
35%
How many genes and chromosomes do humans contain?
25,000 genes and 46 chromosomes
What percentage of offspring will have blue eyes in a BbXBb cross?
25%
Name a disadvantage to asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.
Asexual reproduction all are genetically identical and one is harmed all will be harmed. Sexual reproduction is slow.
What does heterozygous mean?
It means you have two different alleles.
What percent is 8 of 13?
61.5%
Explain how a gene is made into a protein.
DNA is made to mRNA during transcription. mRNA is made into protein during translation.
What are the three genotypes and their percentages in a BbXBb cross?
BB - 25%, Bb - 50% and bb - 25%
B = brown hair, b = blonde hair, S = straight hair and s = curly hair. What is the genotype and phenotype of a person that is Bbss?
Bb and ss genotype and brown curly hair