Genetic Basics
What is the basic unit of heredity?
What is a gene?
What is a tool used to predict the probability of offspring traits?
What is a Punnett square?
What is the probability of flipping a coin and it landing on heads?
What is 50%?
What is the term for different forms of a gene?
What is an allele?
In agriculture, what is the purpose of crossbreeding plants?
What is to produce desirable traits?
What are the two types of alleles?
What are dominant and recessive alleles?
In a monohybrid cross, what is the expected phenotypic ratio of dominant to recessive traits?
In a monohybrid cross, what is the expected phenotypic ratio of dominant to recessive traits?
In a genetic cross, if the probability of an offspring being homozygous recessive is 25%, what is the probability of it being heterozygous?
What is 50%?
What is the term for an observable characteristic
What is a trait?
How can genetic probabilities help in predicting genetic disorders?
What can identify carriers and risks of passing on traits?
What term describes the genetic makeup of an organism?
What is genotype?
If a homozygous dominant plant (AA) is crossed with a homozygous recessive plant (aa), what will be the genotype of the offspring?
What is all heterozygous (Aa)?
If two heterozygous parents (Bb) are crossed, what is the probability of producing a homozygous dominant offspring?
What is 25%?
What do we call the combination of alleles an organism has?
What is a genotype?
What is one way genetic probabilities are used in medicine?
What is determining the likelihood of inherited diseases?
What is the physical expression of a trait called?
What is phenotype?
What does it mean if an organism is homozygous?
What means having two identical alleles for a trait?
What is the term for a trait that masks the effect of another trait?
What is dominant?
What is the difference between a phenotype and a genotype?
What is phenotype is the physical expression, while genotype is the genetic makeup?
Why is it important to understand genetic probabilities in conservation biology?
What helps maintain genetic diversity in endangered species?
Who is known as the father of genetics?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
How does a dihybrid cross differ from a monohybrid cross?
What involves two traits instead of one?
In a genetic cross, what does a probability of 0 represent?
What means the event cannot occur?
What term describes the genetic make-up of an organism when it has two different alleles for a trait?
What is heterozygous?
How can understanding genetic probabilities affect family planning?
What helps assess risks of genetic disorders in children?