Simple genetics
Another term for simple genetics
What is Mendelian Genetics?
A branch of biology that deals with heredity and variation of organisms
What is genetics?
a trait that an organism expresses as determined by its genotype
What is a phenotype?
A species of reptile readily available in the pet trade with the piebald mutation.
What is a ball python?
A purebred is shown through these dominant and recessive genotypes
What is PP and pp?
letters will vary
A grid that uses letters to represent recessive and dominant alleles
What is a Punnett square?
both alleles of a gene are partially expressed
What is incomplete dominance?
A trait that helps an animal survive in its environment and can be passed on to offspring
What is an adaptation?
Name three foods that we have discussed that have been genetically modified through selective breeding
What are : cucumbers, watermelon, lemon , grapefruit, banana, peach, corn, eggplant, carrots, etc.
Another name for an organism with a heterozygous allele
What is a hybrid?
A specific characteristic of an individual
What is a trait?
both alleles of the same gene are expressed separately
What is Codominance?
We used this form of population genetics to create the multitude of dog breeds we have today
What is natural selection?
The first and last names of the conjoined twins we watched a documentary on
Who are Brittney and Abby Hensel ?
BB is an example of a ______ dominant allele
what is homozygous ?
Different versions of the same gene
What are alleles
Two examples of polygenic inheritance in humans
What is height, eye color, skin color?
The change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in the population due to random chance
What is genetic drift?
Mutation that can cause an organism's skin cells to produce no melanin resulting in
What is albanism or albino organisms?
Purebred dominant B crosses with a purebred recessive b . What will their offsprings genotypes be?
What is they are all Bb
The process of passing particular traits from parent to offspring
What is heredity?
the inheritance of a trait governed by more than one gene
What is polygenic inheritance?
A cause of genetic drift
what is : natural disasters, disease plague, random mutations
mutation where an organism’s body contains at least two different sets of DNA
what is chimerism?