Expressing Traits
This is an allele that can only be expressed if all copies of the allele are this type.
What is a recessive allele?
This is the Punnett square of a cross of Aa x aa.
What is Aa, aa
Aa, aa?
This is the genotype for type AB blood.
What is AB?
This is the name of the movie centered around a future "perfected" by polygenic risk profiling.
What is Gattaca?
This is the volume of dirt in a hole that is 5 ft deep, 2 ft wide, and 2 ft long.
What is 0 ft3?
This is a trait that will always be expressed if the allele is present.
What is a dominant trait?
This is the percentage chance an offspring express a dominant phenotype when crossing Aa x Aa.
What is 75%?
These are the genotypes for type A blood.
This is the technique that can be used to edit a cell's DNA using a Cas-9 enzyme.
What is CRISPR?
This is the difference between RNA and DNA.
What is the sugar backbone?
What is Thymine and Uracil?
This is a the name for a genotype that has one dominant and one recessive allele.
What is heterozygous?
This is the percentage chance of having an offspring with the genotype Aa if you cross AA x Aa.
What is 50%?
This is the blood type for the following test:
Anti-A. Anti-B. Anti-Rh.
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What is O positive?
This is the strand of genetic information that Cas-9 matches to a strand of DNA to alter/fix it.
What is guide RNA?
This is the percentage of offspring that will be Pied if you cross a Pied Ball Python (pp) with a Normal Ball Python (Pp).
What is 50%?
This is the name for when two different dominant alleles will be blended together to create a new phenotype in an organism.
What is incomplete dominance?
This is a crossing of two traits at the same time, typically depicted in a 4x4 Punnett square.
What is a Dihybrid Cross?
This is what happens if Anti-A antibodies come in contact with type A blood.
This is the name of the person who was wrongfully convicted of murder and rape before being exonerated by DNA evidence 17 years later.
Who is Earl Washington Jr.?
This is what Cas-9 looks for in a DNA sequence to cleave the DNA in the correct place.
What is the PAM?
This is the name for when two different dominant alleles are expressed simultaneously in an organism.
What is codominance?
The percentage of offspring with an AaBb genotype by crossing an AaBb x AaBb.
What is 25%
If two parents have blood genotypes of Ao and Bo, this is the most likely blood phenotype for an offspring to have.
What is AB, A, B, or O blood?
This is the way we can prevent eugenics from gaining traction again.
What is...?
This was the founder of the eugenics movement.
Who is Sir Francis Galton?