GENETICS

Genetics 1

100

How many dominant alleles are needed for a particular trait to show up?

1

200

What is another word for heterozygous?

hybrid

300

What did Gregor Mendel cross-pollinate in his genetics experiments?

Plants / pea plants

400

This is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.

Probability

500

This is the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring.

Heredity

Genetics 2

100

Blood type is an example of what type of inheritance?

Multiple alleles

200

What is another word for purebred?

homozygous

300

An organism with 2 different alleles for a trait is called a ______.

heterozygous

400

What is the disease when blood does not clot properly?

hemophelia

500

This was the scientist who first began studying heredity and genetics.

Gregor Mendel

Genetics 3

100

The disease in which too much mucus builds up in the lungs?

Cystic fibrosis

200

What do we call a heterozygous individual who do NOT have a disease?

Carrier

300

The tool used to show all of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.

Punnett square

400

Hair color is an example of which type of inheritance, when groups of alleles control the trait?

polygenic inheritance

500

Different forms of a gene.

alleles

Genetics 4

100

This is the study of heredity

genetics

200

This is an organism's genetic makeup.

Genotype

300

This type of organism has 2 different alleles for a trait

Heterozygous

400

This occurs when 2 traits are neither dominant nor recessive, both show up.

co-dominant / codominance

500

Neither trait is dominant over the other and the two blend together.

Incomplete Dominance

Genetics 5

100

TT and tt are both examples of a ___________ trait.

purebred/homozygous

200

This is an organism's physical appearance.

Phenotype

300

Color blindness is carried on which allele?

X chromosome

400

Males have which 2 chromosomes?

XY

500

Females have which 2 chromosomes?

XX