Vocabulary
What is the tool that shows possible gene combination?
Punnett Squares
What does recessive mean?
The unexpressed or weaker trait
The phenotype for TT x tt where T is Tall and t is short.
Tall
What is an example of heredity?
hair color, eye color, hair type, ect.
The physical appearance of an organism
Phenotype
The actual gene makeup of an organism is called the
Genotype
Complete the Punnett square for Gg x GG
Two parents that are dominant homozygous for brown hair create an offspring, what is the child's hair color?
Brown
The chance something will happen
probability
What is heredity?
the passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What does a heterozygous genotype look like?
Capital Letter with a lowercase letter (Dd, Gg, Bb)
The genotypes of DD x Dd and their probability is...
DD- 50%
Dd-50%
When an organism has both dominant genes alike
Purebred
Finish the statement:
Your traits are derived from your ________.
Genes/Genetics
What is an allele?
Different forms of a gene
BB and a Bb cross, what is the percentage that the offspring has the dominant traits?
100%
When an organism has two different genes?
Hybrid
What does a homozygous genotype look like?
The same type of allele (DD, GG, BB or dd, gg, bb)
Who developed the punnett square?
Reginald Punnett
The trait that is normally the capital letter
dominant trait