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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 parents 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 it when something goes wrong in the genetic process such as a person getting an extra chromosome (ex:  Down Syndrome)?

What is a mutation

200
What word means "An allele that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele"
What is dominant
200

What kind of plant did Gregor Mendel observe to study genetics and the passing of traits?

What are Pea plants?

200
What is the scientific word used for "children" in a Punnett Square?
What is "offspring"
200

1) Complete the assigned Punnett Square provided by your brilliant and very intelligent teacher!

2) Determine the ratio of each 

What is that the Punnett Square would have a cross that ends with R in all the squares therefore showing the dominant trait in each cross being Red

300

The trait that is covered up or is weaker that the other one inherited is known as what?

What is recessive

300

What word is defined as "The different or alternative forms of a gene."

What is allele

300

Other than studying genetics, what was Gregor Mendel's other occupation (Hint: religion)?

He was a monk who lived in a monastery 

300

How many PAIRS of chromosomes are in the nucleus of the cells of humans?

What is 23

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"
What is an acquired characterisitic
400
Explain the difference between HH, Hh and hh.
What is HH: homozygous dominant Hh: heterozygous hh: homozygous recessive
400

What is the shape of a DNA molecule?

What is a helix

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 non-observable trait?

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"?

Who is Gregor Mendel

500
Can you know a person's genotype if they are dominant in their phenotype?
What is no because they could be RR or Rr
500
What is the genotypic ratio of the cross of RR x rr?
What is 100% Rr