Vocabulary
_________: This allele is masked by another allele
Recessive
The ability to roll the tongue is a dominate trait and not rolling the tongue is a recessive trait. A homozygous father, who can roll his tongue (RR) and a Heterozygous mom (Rr) are crossed. What is the probability of the child being able to roll their tongue.
100% change the child will have a dominate gene for rolling their tongue.
Homozygous or Heterozygous: aa
Homozygous
Tall is dominate to Short
What is the PHENOTYPE of a parent who is Tt?
Tall
What is the most watched sport in the world?
Soccer (With 3.5 billion fans around the world, soccer is the one sport that pretty much the whole world can agree upon can be claimed the most watched sports in the world. )
____________: When an offspring has one dominate and one recessive allele or receives a different allele from each parent.
Heterozygous
In fruit flies: red eyes are dominate to white eyes. Two heterozygous parents are crossed. What is the probability of the offspring having red eyes AND what is the probability of the offspring having white eyes?
25% chance of the offspring having White Eyes
Brown is dominate to Blue: A child is Bb what is their phenotype
Brown eyes
Tall is dominate to Short
What is the PHENOTYPE of a parent who is tt?
Short
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What does homozygous mean
The offspring is has two of the SAME alleles for a trait.
Brown eyes are Dominate to Blue Eyes
A homozygous blue-eyed father is crossed with a heterozygous mother. What is the probability of the child have blue eyes AND what is the probability of the child having brown eyes?
50% chance of the child have blue eyes or brown eyes.
Hybrid
Two parents both have brown eyes, but their child has blue eyes. How is this possible?
Both parents are Heterozygous for the trait. This means that although their PHENOTYPE is brown eyes, there GENOTYPE is Bb and they can pass on a recessive allele to their child. (Extra points if you says there is a 25% chance the child would have blue eyes)
What is the MOST used app in the United States
Youtube
_________: is the physical look of an organism
Phenotype
In peas, yellow color (T) is dominant to green (t).
What will be the results of a cross-pollination of a heterozygous female and a heterozygous male?
75% chance of being yellow and 25% chance of being green
What does this mean: TT
a. Two dominate Alleles
b. Two Recessive Allels
A
See Document Camera for Question (Whiskers in Seals)
C. WW
D. Both parents have LONG whiskers
E. 100% chance offspring will have LONG Whiskers (Extra points if you said 100% HOMOZYGOUS for LONG whiskers)
What is the most popular social media app/site?
Heterozygous
In humans, straight toes (T) are dominant over curled toes (t).
What would be the result of a cross between a recessive male and a heterozygous female?
50% chance of children having straight or curly toes.
tt (any letter will do as long as they are BOTH lower case)
See Document Camera for Dimples Question
C. The missing parent is dd
D. The parents Phenotype is one with Dimples and one without.
E. The children will have a probability of being 50% with or without dimples.
What athlete has won the most in their sport?
Bill Russell. And the winningest winner in sports history is none other than basketball legend Bill Russell. Russell led the University of San Francisco to three Final Fours and two National Championships while averaging upwards of 20 points and 20 rebounds throughout his college career.