A black (BB) chicken is crossed with a black (BB) chicken. The percentage of their offspring that will be black is...
What is 100% ?
100
How are traits passed from parent to offspring?
What is through genes during reproduction ?
200
Passing information from one generation to the next is called...
What is inheritance ?
200
This type of allele is shown with a lowercase letter.
What is the recessive allele ?
200
The first organism Mendel used to study heredity was...
What is a pea plant ?
200
Tall (T) is dominant to short (t). If a homozygous tall plant is crossed with a heterozygous tall plant, what are the chances of a short offspring?
What is 0% ?
200
Name two traits that could be inherited from a parent?
What is hair color, eye color, height, skin color, freckles, etc...
300
These type of traits are obtained by interacting with the environment.
What are acquired traits ?
300
The word used to describe the genotype Aa is...
What is heterozygous ?
300
The physical trait observed in an offspring is a...
What is a phenotype ?
300
A dog heterozygous for white fur is crossed with a dog with black fur. What are the genotypes of the parents. (Use the letter F).
What is Ff x ff ?
300
The name for traits that come from your parents is...
What are inherited traits ?
400
These are different forms of the same gene.
What are alleles ?
400
The word used to describe the genotype aa is...
What is homozygous ?
400
Each human cell contains this many chromosomes...
What is 46 ?
400
Having dimples is dominant (D). Not having dimples is recessive. (d) Both parents are heterozygous for the dominant trait. What percentage of the children will NOT have dimples?
What is 25% ?
400
Sections of DNA that code for a particular trait are called...
What are genes?
500
This kind of allele is only expressed if you have two copies.
What is a recessive allele ?
500
If tall (T) is dominant to short (t), then the genotype of a short person would be...
What is tt ?
500
Genes are located here...
What are your chromosomes ?
500
Long ears are dominant (E) in rabbits. If one parent is homozygous dominant for the long ear trait and the other homozygours reccessive (e), what is the only possible genotype of the offspring?
What is Ee ?
500
Two dark brown rabbits have four offspring. Three of the offspring are dark and one is white. What does this tell you about the parents' genotypes?