Genetics for Beginners
Alternate versions of the same gene. You inherit one of these from each parent.
What is an allele?
This is the most popular flower to give on Valentine's Day.
What are roses?
Descent with modification.
What is evolution?
This is the goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
This law states that the youngest horizontal rock layers are on the top and the oldest are on the bottom.
What is the Law of Superposition?
Physical appearance of a trait.
What is phenotype?
The God of Love.
Who is Cupid?
This is the name for the different body types of anole lizards.
What are ecomorphs?
This TV show is credited with starting the Galentine's Day tradition.
What is Parks and Recreation?
Glaciers carve valleys with this shape.
What are U-shaped valleys?
Two letter code representing the actual allele combination.
What is genotype?
This company created the first heart shaped box of chocolate.
Who is Cadbury?
Nodes represent this on a cladogram.
What are common ancestors?
This popular Valentine's candy was originally medicine.
What are conversation hearts?
On a topographic map, these lines connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
The allele (trait) that is expressed even when only inherited from one parent.
What is dominant?
This is the most popular Valentine's candy.
What is chocolate in a heart shaped box?
This organism is a transitional fossil between fish and tetrapods (4-legged animals).
What is Tiktaalik?
This occupation receives the most cards on Valentine's Day.
What are teachers?
Subduction zones that form deep ocean trenches are formed at this type of plate boundary.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
An inherited trait that requires two copies in order for it to be expressed in the offspring.
What is recessive?
This English King declared Valentine's Day a holiday in 1537.
Who is Henry VII?
Compared to a football field, recorded human civilization is this big.
What is the width of a Christmas light filament?
This planet is known as the planet of love because it is named after the Roman goddess of love.
What is Venus?
Mass wasting or mass movement is a type of erosion caused by this force.
What is gravity?