Guess the Offspring
The father gives the dominant brown eye trait, the mother also gives the dominant brown eye trait. What eye color does the baby have?
Brown
What is the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another?
Heredity.
What does nature refer to?
Genes
What are the letter and different versions of a gene?
Alleles
What type of reproduction has only one parent?
Asexual
The father gives the blonde hair recessive trait. The mother gives the brown hair dominant trait. What hair color does the child have?
Brown.
What is the structure that carries multiple genes?
Chromosomes
What does nurture refer to?
Environment
What are large molecules made of amino acids that are coded for by genes?
Proteins
What type of reproduction has two parents?
Sexual
The parents both have the recessive blue eye trait. What eye color do their children have?
Blue.
What is the quality or characteristic that makes up an organism?
Trait
No. Both have an influence on people's traits.
What is the chemical found in cells that is the main component of chromosomes and carries genetic information?
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
Which type of reproduction has more genetic variation?
Sexual reproduction.
The parents both have the Bb alleles (genotype) for brown eyes. Can they have children with blue eyes (bb)?
Yes. If the children inherit the recessive trait from both parents.
What is the allele that masks the other and presents when only one is available?
Dominant
The color of your hair.
Nature or Genetics.
What is the physical representation of the trait?
Phenotype.
Why do siblings from the same parents not look exactly alike?
Genetic Variation. They receive a different genotype from the same parents.
The child has blue eyes. Both parents have brown eyes. How is it possible for the child to have blue eyes?
The child inherited the recessive trait from both parents. Parents are Bb.
What is the allele that requires two to be available for the trait to show?
Recessive.
Your height and weight.
What is a lettered pair allele?
Genotype
How many chromosomes do humans have?
46 or 23 pairs.