The Father of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel
The chromosomes made of long chains of molecules
What is DNA
The term used to describe the organism's physical characteristics.
What is trait
The term used to describe the scientific study of heredity?
What is Genetics
What is the name of a chart that is used to calculate the probablility of an offspring combination of alleles
What is a Punnett Square
The type of plant that Gregor Mendel studied?
What is a pea plant
The genetic information stored within the nucleus of a cell
What is a chromosome
What you can learn
What is Acquired trait
The process in which characteristics passed from parents to offspring
What is heredity
The alleles that are represented by a capital letter and will always show up if present.
What is dominant
The parent responsible for gender at birth.
Who is the father.
You get half of your chromosomes from your mom and half from your dad. How many chromosomes total do you get?
What is 46
The traits that you get from your mother or your father
What is inherited traits
The language we speak is called an __________trait.
What is acquired?
The alleles that are represented by lower case letters and will only show up if they are paired with a similar allele
What is recessive
Gregor Mendel's living space
What is a monastery
The term that describes a segment of DNA that has a code for a specific trait
What is gene
The term that is used to describe the total physical appearance of an individual
Phenotype
The term that describes two paired alleles that are exactly the same.
What is homozygous
Cross a homozygous dominant plant with a homozygous recessiive plant.
T=tall. t= short
What are the possible genotypes of the offspring?
Tt
Mendel discovered that sometimes a recessive trait can _______ a generation.
What is skip
The term that describes one of a pair of genes that controls a certain characteristic.
What is allele
The term used to describe the specific genetic make up or "code" of an indivdual?
What is genotype
The term that describes two paired alleles that are different from each other.
What is heterozygous?
Complete the Punnett Square below, filling in the missing information.
Rr, rr, Rr, rr