This type of reproduction occurs when one cell divides into 2 identical daughter cells.
What is Mitosis
100
Who is considered to be the Father of Genetics?
Who is Gregor Mendel.
100
On a punnett square, the alleles (or genes) of each parent are placed where?
What is on the top and the left of the square.
What is outside of the square.
100
A white flower and a red flower have pink offspring
What is Incomplete Dominance
100
This describes an organism's internal "code."
What is Genotype
200
Mitosis is an example of this type of reproduction.
What is Asexual Reproduction.
200
What two types of traits did Mendel discover?
What are dominant and recessive traits
200
If a heterozygous male critter breeds with a heterozygous female critter, this is the ratio of their offspring's phenotype.
What is 3:1
200
A black dog and a white dog have a dog with white and black spots.
What is Co-Dominance
200
This describes an individual characteristic of an organism
What is a trait
300
This type of reproduction occurs when a sperm fertilizes an egg.
What is Sexual Reproduction
300
When did Mendel do his research?
What were the mid-1800's (1850's)
300
This models the 50/50 probability of a parent passing on one allele or another to their offspring.
What is tossing a coin.
300
A chestnut brown horse and a cremello white horse have one chestnut foal, two golden palomino foals, and one cremello white foal. (A foal is a baby horse).
What is Incomplete Dominance
300
This is the process where cells divide asexually
What is mitosis
400
This occurs when bees or other species transfer pollen from one flower to another
What is pollination.
400
Gregor Mendel wore many hats (that is, he had a lot of jobs). Name two of his job titles.
What are monk, botanist, teacher, geneticist.
400
This is the genotype of all of the offspring of a homozygous dominant father and a homozygous recessive mother.
What is heterozygous
400
A tall plant and short plant have all medium height plants.
What is Co-Dominance
400
This describes the outward, physical appearance of an organism.
What is phenotype
500
Flowers reproduce using this method of reproduction.
What is Sexual Reproduction
500
This is the pattern of inheritance that Mendel Discovered.
What is simple inheritance.
500
You have to know this information about both parents in order to accurately predict the genetic outcome of the offspring.
What is the parent's genotype
500
These are some ways to help you remember the difference between Incomplete Dominance and Co-Dominance.
What are looking at the prefixes of the word
What is remembering that Co- means with, or both
What is remembering that Incomplete yields a new, third trait.
500
This term is used when describing an organism whose genotype is either dominant-dominant or recessive-recessive.