Vocabulary
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
Study of how traits are passed through generations
What is genetics?
He was first to crossbreed animals for food
Who is Robert Bakewell?
Gregor Mendel used these to study genetics
What are pea plants?
Special genes on each chromosome
What are alleles?
The presence of two different alleles for the same gene
What is heterozygous?
He is the father of modern genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Someone with BB or Bb traits have this eye color
What is brown?
The allele that hides the effects of another allele
What is dominant allele?
The presence of the same two alleles for the same gene
What is homozygous?
Breeding of a plant or animal within a family line to produce desirable or remove unwanted traits
What is inbreeding?
This is used to predict traits of offspring
What is a punnett square?
Three positive effects of inbreeding in cattle.
What are ate less, larger, produced more meat?
An organism that has identical alleles (BB or bb).
What is a purebred?
The set of genes that make up an organism
What is genotype?
Two animals mostly used in modern inbreeding
What are horses and dogs?
This tracks traits looking back at generations
What is pedigree?
The condition where both alleles of a gene are present. (Black and white feathers on a chicken)
What is codominance?
The observable characteristics of an organism’s genotype
What is phenotype?
Three negative effects of inbreeding
What are abnormalities, physical defects, and cancer?
This is an example of incomplete dominance
What are pink flowers?