Genetics
Genes
In the Nucleus
Differences
Miscellaneous
100
The Father of heredity
Who is Mendel
100
A sequence of DNA that determines a trait
What is a Gene?
100
The molecule in all organisms that carries genetic information
What is DNA?
100
Having two different alleles
What is Heterozygous?
100
Another word for offspring.
What is children?
200
The study of inherited traits
What is Genetics?
200
A version of a gene
What is an Allele?
200
A threadlike structure within the nucleus that is passed from one generation to the next.
What is a Chromosome?
200
Having two of the same alleles
What is Homozygous?
200
What are the 4 blood types
A,B,AB AND O
300
A genetically determined characteristic
What is a Trait?
300
Only one copy of a this allele must be present to effect a trait.
What is Dominant?
300
The combination of alleles
What is Genotype?
300
The physical result of the genotype
What is Phenotype?
300
This kind of cell
What is Bacteria?
400
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is Inheritance (or Heredity)?
400
Two copies of these alleles must be present to effect a trait.
What is Recessive?
400
The difference in genes between members of the same species.
What is Genetic Variation?
400
A change in the DNA of gene
What is a mutation?
400
the name for a change in the DNA code
A mutation
500
Genes are recipes for building these.
What are proteins?
500
How many alleles this flower has for flower color and if Purple is dominant, what are the two possible genotypes?
What is 2?
500
The process that copies the message of the gene into mRNA.
What is transcription?
500
A grid used to calculate the genotype and phenotype probabilities of offspring of a cross
What is a Punnett Square?
500
The "likelihood" of inheriting a trait in terms of % is also called the ____________________ of inheriting a trait.
Probability