Vocabulary
This is the study of heredity.
What is Genetics?
Homozygous (BB) breeds with Heterozygous (Bb) What is the probability of the offspring being Homozygous Recessive (bb)?
What is 0 %.
Mom and Dark Brown eyes, and Dad has blue eyes. Baby A has blue eyes.. What does this say about Mom's allele?
What is... Her allele is heterozygous. Bb
This is how an organism looks or behaves.
What is phenotype?
Pp, Tt, Rr, Jj, Uu
What is Heterozygous?
This is a different form that a gene may have.
What is Allele.
BB and bb breed. What is the probability of a Bb offspring?
What is 100% ?
A black great dane breeds with a blue great dane. All of the pups are black. What does this mean?
What is... Black is dominant, and the black great dane was homozygous dominant. (BB)
These organisms will have the same traits from generation to generation.
What is purebred?
This is the form of a trait that covers up the other form. It is represented by a capital letter.
What is a Dominant Trait?
Bb and Bb breed. What is the probability of a homozygous recessive offspring?
What is 25% ?
Mom has Dark Brown Eyes, Dad has bright blue eyes. They have 4 children. Only one child has brown eyes. What information do we know about the 3 kids that have blue eyes?
What is... They are all homozygous recessive (bb)
The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.
What is a hybrid?
Red Flower and White Flower Breed = Pink Flower What type of dominance?
What is Incomplete Dominance?
An organisms allele pairs. Found on the genes.
What is a genotype?
This is a tool to determine the probable phenotypes of genetic crosses.
What is a punnett square?
Mom is heterozygous for freckles (Ff). Dad has freckles but Jr. does not. This is Dad's genotype.
Ff
He was considered the Father of Genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
In this, traits are controlled by more than one gene.
What is polygenetic inheritance?
You could describe this allele as.....(There are two terms) Xx
What is Heterozygous or Hybrid.
Bb and Bb breed. What is the probability of a Homozygous Dominant offspring?
25%
Gray is dominant over black in dogs. Find the phenotype of the offspring of a black female and a black male.
What is 100% black?
This is Mrs. Smith's favorite nutty spread.
What is peanut butter?
In this type of inheritance, both traits show up. Ex: Red cow with white spots.