Vocab
Sections of DNA on a chromosome that contains the instructions for making specific proteins.
What is a gene?
The theoretical result of crossing two purple, heterozygous pea plants.
ie. Ff and Ff
What are three purple pea plants and one white pea plant?
This man discovered that traits are spread from parent to child by working with pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
(First name not required)
Punnett squares help scientists do these two things.
What is find all possible outcomes and find the probability of those outcomes?
The genetic material of all organisms made up at sugar phosphate molecules and nitrogen bases.
What is DNA?
The color(s) of two purple, homozygous pea plants' offspring.
What is all purple?
The snowman lab's examples are all examples of this type of genetics.
What is Mendelian genetics?
A pedigree is a tool for scientists that helps them figure out this.
What is figuring out an organism's genotype?
The genetic makeup of an organism.
ie. BB, Bb, or bb
What is a genotype?
The blending of traits when the dominant and recessive traits are combined instead of the dominant trait being expressed.
What is incomplete dominance.
The reason there is variation between the parents and child in sexual reproduction.
What is genes are given randomly?
The probability an offspring of two homozygous mice who are grey (dominant) and white (recessive) is heterozygous.
Hint: make a Punnett square
What is 0% or 0/4?
Different physical appearance and behavior of an organism as a result of its genotype.
What is a phenotype?
A and B blood types are dominant when combined O, but when put together, they are ___________.
What is codominant?
The reason why some people have more DNA in their cheek cell sample.
What is their sample had less DNA than others?
When a trait is carried through this chromosome boys are more likely the inherit the trait.
What is the X chromosome?
Alternate for of a gene that may have a single trait. It can be dominant or recessive.
What is an allele?
The number of alleles that control eye color.
What is six?
Adenine and guanine go with these other nitrogen bases.
What is adenine goes with thymine and guanine goes with cytosine?
A square represents this gender in a pedigree.
What is male?