genetic vocab
An organism's physical appearance
what is phenotype
What is a person's blood type of their genotype is "ii"?
What is type O
Brown eyes(B) are dominant to blue eyes(b).
A mom who is heterozygous for brown eyes and a dad with blue eyes are expecting a baby.
What is the possibility the baby will have blue eyes?
What is 50%
When two alleles are "blended" together, what must be true of its pattern of inheritance?
What is Incomplete dominance
Who is known as the "father of genetics"?
Who is Gregor Mendel
The actual genetics of an organism
what is genotype
In mermaids, a shiny tail(r) is recessive to a matte tail(R).
If a mermaid has a shiny tail, what is her genotype for tail color?
What is rr
In dogs, long tails are dominant to short tails.
A mommy dog with a short tail and a papa dog that is homozygous for a long tail are having a litter of puppies.
What percent of the pups could have a short tail?
What is 0%
When both alleles of a specific trait are expressed equally in the genotype, what must be true of the pattern of inheritance?
What is Codominance
What 3 things are nucleotides made off?
What are sugar, phosphate, and a base
different forms of a specific gene
what are alleles
What is the homozygous genotype for type A blood?
What is IA IA
What percentage of offspring will have white and red feathers?
50%
What is true of the pattern of inheritance for human blood type?
What is Codominance
Carries all the genetic instructions for living organisms
What is DNA
a segment of DNA that codes for a specific trait
gene
For an organism to have a recessive phenotype, what has to be true of the alleles?
what are 2 recessive alleles
In hornets, a sharp stinger is dominant to a dull stinger.
If all baby hornets from the nest have dull stingers, what is true of both parents genotypes?
What are homozygous recessive genotypes?
A mommy bunny rabbit with black hair and a papa bunny rabbit with white hair have a baby bunny rabbit with grey hair.
What must be true of the pattern of inheritance concerning rabbit hair?
What is incomplete dominancy
A characteristic that can be passed on to an offspring by genes
What is a trait
diagram used to predict possible genotypes for specific genes
What is a Punnett Square
In unicorns, pink hair (T) is dominant to blue hair (t).
If a unicorn's genotype is Tt, what color hair does it have?
What is pink hair
What are the possible blood types of an offspring from parents with type AB and type O blood?
What is type A and type B
What must be true concerning pattern of inheritance of flower petals?
What is codominance