Genetic Diseases
Punnett Squares
Pedigrees
Length and Quality of Life
Vocabulary
100
Disease caused by mutations of genes or changes in the number of chromosomes.
What is a genetic disease?
100
Chart that shows possible allele combinations.
What is a punnett square?
100
A chart or family tree that tracks which members of a family has a particular trait.
What is the meaning of word pedigree?
100
Environment, Gender, Genes, Diet, Medical Care, and Sanitation.
What is 6 parts of Length and Quality of Life?
100
The study of heredity.
What is genetics?
200
Short, swelling, and damaged ovaries. Turners disease also affects the female, and occurs when x chromosome is missing.
What are symptoms of Turners disease?
200
All the offsprings genotypes would be Tt and all the plants are tall.
What are the different offsprings if a purebred tall plant and a purebred short plant reproduce?
200
Squares means male and circle means female.
What does a square and circle meaning on a pedigree chart?
200
Clean dead animals before you eat them, drink clean water, and fing nutrients.
What is Diet?
200
Different forms of a gene.
What is a allele?
300
When sickle shaped cells block blood vessels and do not let much oxygen through. Affects red blood cells.
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
300
The genotype of the offspring would be 50% TT or 50% Tt. The phenotype would be 100% widow´s peak.
What is the offspring if Mary is a hybrid for the dominant trait widow´s peak, and Stan is homozygous dominant.
300
Half shapes represent carriers and full shapes represent that person has the trait.
What does half and full shapes represent?
300
Available medical care =lives longer. Lack of medical care =lives lost.
What is Medical Care?
300
Has two different forms of a trait.
What is a hybrid offspring?
400
When you have extreme coughing and mucus in lungs. Affects lungs and digestive system. LIfespan to the mid thirties.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
400
The offspring of a green plant (Gg) and a yellow plant (gg) is 25% (Gg) and 75% (gg).
What is the offspring of Gg and gg?
400
Represents person does not have the trait and is not a carrier of a trait.
What does none shaded shapes mean?
400
Lack of clean drinking water and poor living conditions.
What is Sanitation?
400
# of describing the likelihood of an event happening.
What is the meaning of the word probability?
500
When there is a extra copy of chromosome 21. Occurs when chromosomes do not separate in meiosis. Causes heart defects and mental retardation.
What is Down´s Syndrome?
500
A black chicken (BB) and another black chicken (BB) would have 100% black chicken and their genotype would be (BB).
What is offsprings phenotype and genotype?
500
Vertical lines connects parents to their children and horizontal lines connects marriages.
What do vertical and horizontal lines do on a pedigree chart?
500
Some genders live longer than others. Genders are prone to certain diseases.
What is Gender?
500
Take pollen from 1 plant then moved it to another in order to see how traits were passed on.
What is cross- polinate?