Vocabulary
What is a genetic disorder that results in the lack of pigmentation?
what is albinism
What is the study of inheritance and genes (HEREDITY) in living organisms?
what is genetics
What is the specific form or variation of a gene (example = blue or brown eyes)?
what is an allele
What is reproduction that requires two parents. Both parents pass half of their genetic information to their offspring?
what is sexual reproduction
What is the purpose of a Punnett Square?
what is predicting the probability of offspring genotype & phenotype in a single mating event.
What is an organism that lack pigmentation in hair, skin, eyes or feathers?
what is albino
What is the part of the chromosome that has the information for each trait that the offspring inherits from its parents?
what is a gene
What is reproduction that only requires one parent. An exact copy of genetic information is passed from the parent to the offspring?
what is asexual reproduction
What is the allele that is not expressed, and represented as a lowercase letter
what is a recessive allele
What is the observable characteristics an organism has based on their genotype?
what is phenotype
What is the selective breeding of plants and animals by humans?
what is artificial selection
What is the molecule that has genes on it and is passed from parent to offspring?
what is a chromosome
What is an organized, visual picture of all the chromosomes and its banding pattern in an organism?
what is a karyotype
What is the allele that is always expressed and represented by an uppercase letter?
what is a dominant allele
What is the genotype that has two identical alleles for a trait in an allele pair (example: BB or bb)?
what is homozygous
What is the intentional breeding of organisms with desirable traits in an attempt to produce offspring with similar desirable characteristics or improved traits?
What are the 3D structures built from instructions or genes in our DNA that perform various functions within the organism?
what is a protein
What is a change in the gene structure or sequence?
what is a mutation
What are three potential functional outcomes of a mutated protein?
what is beneficial, harmful, and neutral
What is the genotype that has two different alleles for a trait in an allele pair (example: Bb)?
what is heterozygous
What is the molecule that stores all the information (genes) for living things to function?
what is DNA
What is a characteristic that we get from our parents?
what is a trait
What is any individual living thing?
what is an organism
What is the town name where our anchor phenomena takes place?
what is Olney
What is the specific set of alleles that an organism has.?
what is genotype