Traits and Heredity
What is the study of genes and traits that parents pass on to their children?
What is Heredity?
What is a histogram?
A graph using bars to show the frequency of a qualitative variable, such as hair color or eye color.
What is an example of a dominant and recessive trait?
Dominant: Brown eyes
Recessive: Blue eyes
What is a code?
Symbols, letters, words, or drawings used to communicate information.
What does heterozygous mean?
When you inherit two different alleles for a single trait. (Bb)
Why is the use of graphs important for scientists? (What do they show us?)
The variation amongst a population.
What are Punnett Squares used for?
To help predict variations and probabilities, for example eye color.
What is morse code?
A system of communication with long and short duration sounds. Each letter of the alphabet has a unique series and sound. In written form, it contains dots and dashes.
What does homozygous mean?
What are genes?
What are Segments of DNA that provide the instructions for specific traits?
In addition to hair color and eye color, what trait can be inherited?
What is height, ear shape, lip shape?
What are different forms of the same gene? (We inherit one from our mother and one from our father)
What is an allele?
What is a cipher?
A key that explains what coding symbols mean.
What is the structure of DNA called?
What is a double helix?
Who are the only people that have the same DNA?
Who are twins?
What is the most common eye color in our classroom?
Brown
How many dominant genes do you need in order to have brown eye?
one
What was travelers code used for?
To warn travelers when they were traveling.
Brown, because it is a dominant trait.
What are genes often referred as?
What are "units of heredity"?
When we looked at the map of eye color distribution around the world, how come so many people have brown eyes?
How many blue genes are required for a person to have blue eyes?
Two
How are codes similar to DNA coding?
If a code is changed, it can alter the result, which is similar to DNA because if the formation of DNA is altered, it can lead to a health condition.
What was the mnemonic for the base pairs of DNA? (from the rap song)
200 extra if you can name them.
GCAT
G:Guanine C:Cytosine A:Adenine T: Thymine