Vocabulary
The passing of traits from parent to offspring is called.
What is heredity?
What is a circle?
Which of the following best defines heredity?
A: The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
B: The study of the genetic instructions that are passed from parent to offspring
C: The specific sequence of DNA and RNA that code for specific traits
D: The process of creating more organisms of a species
What is A?
A: The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
On you paper, cross a Purebred Tall (T) and a purebred short (t). What percentage is hybrid?
What is 100%?
What information is absolutely essential to a Punnett Square?
What is the parents' genotypes.
When two alleles are the same they are called.
What is homozygous?
A male is shown as this on a pedigree.
What is a square?
Which of the following best explains the difference between the terms “genetics” and “heredity”?
A: Genetics is the study of recessive traits; heredity is the study of dominant traits.
B: Genetics is the study of dominant traits; heredity is the study of recessive traits.
C: Genetics is the study of genes; heredity is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next.
D:Genetics is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next, heredity is the study of genes.
What is C?
C: Genetics is the study of genes; heredity is the study of how genes are transferred from one generation to the next.
On your paper, cross two heterozygous tall plants (Tt). What plant is there 50% of?
What is heterozygous tall?
What is the scientific word used for "children" in a Punnett Square?
What is offspring?
When two alleles are different they are called.
What is heterozygous?
What does a shaded shape represent in a pedigree?
A person that has the trait that is being tracked.
Give an example of a homozygous dominant genotype for height.
HH (or 2 other capital letters)
On your paper, cross two hybrid tall plants (Tt). What plant is there 25 of?
**you must name both
What is homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive?
Type of reproduction that is both fast and energy efficient.
What is asexual reproduction
Characteristics have these different forms
What is trait?
What does a half shaded shape represent on a pedigree chart?
A carrier of a trait.
An organism inherits its genetic instructions from the —
What is organism's parents.
Having dimples is a recessive trait. What genotypes would two parents without dimples have to have in order to have a child that does have dimples? Use D for the allele.
Both parents would need to be Dd. (heterozygous)
Can you know a person's genotype if they are dominant in their phenotype?
what is no
What are Punnett Squares?
Explain what the horizontal and vertical lines represent in a pedigree chart.
Horizontal= Marriage or Parents
Vertical= Offspring
Which student did the best job of defining the word “heredity”?
Kendall – Heredity is the study of chromosomes and the genes that they contain.
Carla – Heredity is the passing of genetic information contained in chromosomes from one generation to the next.
Joseph – Heredity is the study of human characteristics passed down from parent to offspring.
Devon – Heredity is the reason that tall parents will usually have tall children.
What is
Carla – Heredity is the passing of genetic information contained in chromosomes from one generation to the next.
On your paper, cross a homozygous tall and a heterozygous tall. What are the 2 genotypes present in the Punnett square?
What are TT and Tt?
Who is called the "father of genetics"?
who is Mendel