A diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next
What is a pedigree chart?
100
When looking at the chart, the first letter in the codon is located on the left hand side of the chart. The second letter is at the top of the chart. Find when these two letter intersect. Then look at the third letter. It is found on the right hand side of the chart, in the box where one and two intersect.
How do you read a codon chart?
100
An organism that is homozygous.
What is a purebred?
200
The act of using pollen to make a hybrid from 2 opposite purebreds.
What is cross-pollination?
200
The dad's traits go on top, and the mom's traits go on the side.
How do you make a Punnett square?
200
A specialist or expert in genetics
What is a geneticist?
200
The genetic code is a series of three bases in a row called a codon. Each codon represents and amino acid. For example, the DNA strand AAA-TCT would code for the amino acids lys-ser.
What is a codon chart?
200
An organism that is heterozygous.
What is a hybrid?
300
The study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles.
What is genetics?
300
An alleles effect is dominant or recessive
What is one principle on heredity?
300
Unknown
Who discovered the pedigree chart?
300
The code that defines sequences of three nucleotides