Gregor Mendel
This man was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
This is one set of instructions for an inherited trait.
What is a gene?
A characteristic feature or quality distinguishing a particular person or thing.
What is a trait?
This is the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
This is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
What are genetics?
This trait disappears in the first generation and re-appears in the second generation.
What is a recassive trait?
This is the set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait.
What is genotype?
This is one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic.
What is an allele?
This trait shows up in the first generation.
What is a dominant trait?
This is the physical expression, or characteristics, of a trait.
What is phenotype?
This is the deliberate breeding of two different individuals that results in offspring that carry part of the genetic material of each parent.
What is a genetic cross?
This is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment.
What is a punnett square?
This is the variation in the DNA sequence in each of our genomes.
What is genetic variation?
This is an inherited medical condition caused by a DNA abnormality.
What is a generic disease?
This is the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
What is an offspring?