Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Get on Your Thinking Cap
Bonus
Punnett Squares
100
What is the word that means "The scientific study of heredity."
What is genetics
100
What is the word that means "The passing of traits from parents to offspring."
What is heredity
100
What are the allele versions of a hair line
What is Widow's peak or no widow's peak (can also be called an Eddie)
100
What information is absolutely essential to a Punnett Square?
What is the parent's phenotype?
What is the parent's genotype?
What is the parent's genotype?
100
What is a "tool used in genetics to predict the chances of a specific genetic outcome"
What is the Punnett Square
200
What is "An organism’s possible allele combinations called?
genotype or phenotype
What is the phenotype?
200
What word means "An allele that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele."
dominant or recessive
What is dominant
200
Why can the height of a person be considered inherited but environmentally influenced?
What is the height of a person is based on genetics but things like nutrition play a role in how tall the person actually gets
200
What is the scientific word used for "children" in a Punnett Square?
results
DNA pairs
offspring
What is "offspring"
200
A homozygous dominant brown mouse is crossed with a heterozygous brown mouse (tan is the recessive color).
A75 % brown and 25 % tan
B100 % brown
C100 % tan
D50 % brown and 50% tan
100% is round
300
What word means "The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait"
What is a gene
300
What word is defined as "The different forms of a gene."
What is allele
300
Why can some people taste the chemical PTC but not others?
What is that the trait for the tasting of PTC is inherited so not everyone will have that trait
300
Acquired or inherited? Leaf Shape
What is inherited
300
R is for red and r is for white. What is the cross of a homozygous dominant and a heterozygous?
What is RR x Rr
400
What is the word that means "Traits or characteristics that are determined by an organism’s DNA that was inherited from their parents"?
What is inherited traits
400
What is the word that means "A characteristic that an organism gets during its lifetime that is not determined by its DNA."
inherited characteristic
acquired characteristic
What is an acquired characterisitic
400
The allele HH.
heterozygous dominant
homozygous dominant
What is HH: homozygous dominant?
400
Acquired or inherited? Athletic ability
What is acquired
400
What is the phenotypic ratio of RR x Rr? (R is for red and r is for white)
What is 100% Red
500
What is "An organism’s genetic make-up or allele combinations."
What is genotype
500
What is "An organism’s physical appearance or visible traits."?
What is phenotype
500
Who is called the "father of genetics."
Gregor Mendel
Peter Mendeleev
Phillipe Nastase
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
T - tall and t = short
In the Punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square tt, Tt, TT
What is tt?
500
What is the genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 100% Rr