Heredity Terms
DNA Structure and Fuction
Punnet Squares
Pedigree
Random Science
100
the passing of genetic material from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
100
What is the shape of DNA?
A double helix
100
what does capital letters show?
Dominant phenotype
100
what does this line mean?
marriage/mated
100
how many planets are there?
8
200
different versions of a gene
What are alleles?
200
Information on how to offspring is
What does DNA contain?
200
To find traits passed down generations do you use punnet squares? what do you use
no pedigrees
200
How are punnet squares and pedigrees different?
Punnet squares show possibilities for the offspring and pedigrees show how traits and or diseases are passes down.
200
True or false: birds are most closely related to dinosaurs.
true
300
segments of DNA found in chromosomes that give instructions for producing a certain characteristic
What are genes?
300
What is DNA made of?
Genetic code
300
What genotypes go on the top and side of punnet squares?
The parents genotypes.
300
what does a pedigree show us?
traits that are passed down and if they are dominant or recessive
300
what is pluto?
dwarf planet
400
a feature that has different forms in a population
What is a characteristic?
400
what are Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, and Cytosine
DNA code
400
Do punnet squares show what all the offspring's genotypes will be?
No, it shows the possibilities for one offspring.
400
What do Circles represent on a pedigree
females
400
how many dwarf planets do we have?
5
500
what did Gregor Mendel do?
discovered Genetics
500
What does the M in MRNA stand for?
Messanger
500
What do punnet squares show?
The probability or possible genotypes of offspring
500
What are males represented as in pedigrees?
Squares
500
Who is the best science teacher?
Mrs. DeFrances