Genetics Vocabulary
Punnett Squares
Heredity and Traits
Types of Reproduction
Mix&Match
100
This word refers to a pair of alleles that are exactly the same.
What is Homozygous?
100
This is what a Punnett Square is used for
What is To predict the possible genotypes of offspring based on the parents' alleles?
100
The meaning of heredity
What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring?
100
What is budding?
100
This diagram is used to calculate the chances of a particular trait being inherited
What is a Punnett Square?
200
Having two different versions of an allele
What is Heterozygous?
200
Gregor Mendel used these type of plants to study heredity
What are Pea Plants?
200
These are traits that are passed from parent to offspring
What are inherited traits?
200
The meaning of asexual reproduction
What is only needing one parent to pass on genetic material to create an identical copy?
200
This word best describes the allele "ff"
What is Homozygous recessive?
300
Section of DNA that controls a specific trait
What is a gene?
300
If a heterozygous parent (Bb) is crossed with a homozygous recessive parent (bb), this percentage of offspring will be Bb?
What is 50%?
300
Height, eye color, curly hair, are all examples of this word
What is a phenotype?
300
Binary Fission
300
This word describes differences within a species
What is variation?
400
The difference between a dominant and recessive trait
What is Dominant traits always show up or mask the recessive trait. Recessive traits show up if there are two copies of the allele present.
400
In a cross between two heterozygous parents (Bb), these are the possible genotypes of the offspring. (MUST USE PROPER VOCABULARY).
BB,Bb,bb (Homozygous dominant, Heterozygous dominant, Homozygous recessive)
400
Learning to swim, speaking a language, or cutting your hair would be an example of this trait
What are acquired traits?
400
This describes when a organism regrows a lost body part. Sometimes this results in a new organism being created.
What is regeneration?
400
This is why some recessive diseases, like cystic fibrosis, run in families?
What is both parents contribute a recessive allele?
500
The chances of having offspring expressing a recessive trait from a cross between two Heterozygous parents.
What is 25%?
500
In a cross between two heterozygous parents (Bb) for a trait where B is dominant, this is the probability that an offspring will express the recessive trait
What is 25%?
500
This is the location of chromosomes inside the cell
What is the nucleus?
500
This might happen to an organism that reproduces asexually when exposed to a changing environment
What is may not be able to adapt or die or become extinct?
500
This is why genetic variation benefits a population of organisms
What is, It increases the chances that some individuals will survive if environmental conditions change?