Traits
This trait appears on your cheeks when you smile.
What are dimples?
This phenotype always gives a recessive trait
The study of heredity (inheritance, genes, DNA).
What is genetics?
Describes what you physically look like.
What is the phenotype
The two qualities you must exhibit in my classroom.
What is being kind and respectful?
Attached or Detached.
What are earlobe traits?
This phenotype always gives a dominant trait.
Where DNA is found.
What is the nucleaus?
Describes which alleles you have for a trait.
What is your genotype
My halloween costume this year.
What was Miss Frizzle?
A trait that is not inherited but is learned or gained over time.
What is an Acquired trait
When both forms of the allele are capital/dominant. Like the turkey tail color
What is Codominance?
What are chromosomes?
The combination of letters
What is the genotype
Please open your notebooks to the next clean page and put today's date at the top.
What is the science warm up?
A debate over whether your DNA or your environment ultimately determine who you are.
What is the nature vs nurture debate?
When the dominant trait doesn't completely mask/dominate the recessive trait.
What is incomplete dominance?
These cells have your DNA in them.
What are all of your cells
The reigning NBA Champions
Who are the Boston Celtics?
The difference in how a trait is expressed in an organism due to factors in its environment. ie. Flamingos are pink because of what they eat.
The number of alleles that each person carries for a trait.
What is 2
The scientists that first discovered how inheritance works.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Homozygous recessive has these 2 letters
Heterozygous genotype
What is a genotype with a lower case and an upper case letter?