Heredity 1
List three combinations of alleles - choose any letter.
RR, Rr, rr.
Appendages are also called these.
What are legs, arms, or limbs.
The different forms of a gene.
What is an allele?
This is the number of chromosome pairs in a human body.
What is 23.
An organism's physical appearance.
What is phenotype?
A genotype that has two different alleles for a trait.
What is Heterozygous?
What this genotype (gg) is called.
What is homozygous recessive?
An allele that will disappear in the presence of a dominant allele.
What is recessive?
In reindeer, spotted fur is dominant and spotless fur is recessive. What are the possible genotypes for spotted fur? Pick any letter you'd like.
What are Ff and FF?
The combination of alleles someone has for a trait
What is genotype?
This codes for a specific protein or trait.
What is a gene?
This is the structure in the cell that stores your chromosomes.
What is the nucleus?
The form a gene will show when it masks another allele.
What is a dominant allele?
This name of this genotype (Hh).
What is heterozygous?
A genotype that has two of the same alleles for a trait.
What is Homozygous?
Mystery!
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An organism's genetic make up.
What is genotype.
What is this genotype (HH) called?
What is homozygous dominant?
What has more DNA; a Human or an Onion
Onion
Variations of a feature are called this.
What are traits?
The passing of traits from parent to offspring.
Heredity.
The range of difference between traits of a feature.
What is variation?
What traits do most mammals share?
Multiple correct answers!
DNA has this many number of strands.
What are two.
How do genes affect traits?
Genes determine the characteristics and traits of an organism by coding for proteins.