Genetics and Punnett Squares
The type of trait that will show even if only one copy is present.
What is a dominant trait?
This 1765 law placed taxes on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This part of a fraction tells us how many equal parts the whole is divided into.Wha
What is the denominator?
Scientist use the to group living things by shared traits.
What is classification?
This silent letter is often added to the end of a word to make the vowel say its name.
What is silent final E?
In a Punnett square, a capital letter stands for this type of allele.
What is a dominant allele?
Colonists used this phrase to protest taxes from a government in which they had no voice.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This fraction is greater: 1/2 or 3/4.
What is 3/4?
This is the broadest (biggest) level of classification.
What is Kingdom?
These letters follow 'c' and 'g' to make them say their soft sounds (/s/ & /j/).
What are 'e', 'i', or 'y'?
The percentage of two Bb parent having a child with blue eyes.
What is 25 percent?
This protests involved dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
When compared with a common denominator, this fraction is greater: 2/3 or 3/5
What is 2/3?
This kingdom includes mushrooms, mold and yeast.
What is fungi?
English words cant end in 'v' or 'u', so we add this letter at the end.
What is silent final 'e'?
These are the possible genotypes from a Bb x bb cross.
What are Bb and bb?
These three issues pushed the colonists toward the war with Britain.
What are taxes, British control, and lack of representation?
This is the simplified version of 8/12.
What is 2/3?
The correct order of these: family class genus order
What is class, order, family, genus?
THis rule tells you to double the final consonant in a 1 syllable word before adding an ending such as -ing
What is Rule 14?
This term means the genetic makeup, while its partner means the physical trait?
What are genotype and phenotype?
This set of laws was meant to punish colonists after the Boston Tea Part and included closing Boston Harbor.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
THe sum of 2/5 and 1/10.
What is 1/2 or 5/10?
These are the seven levels of classification in order.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
These are Rules 13-17.
What is Rule 13 – /sh/ The /sh/ sound can appear at the beginning or end of a base word but rarely begins any syllable after the first—except in endings like -ship. Rule 14 – Double the Final Consonant Before a Vowel Suffix When a one-syllable word ends in a single vowel followed by a consonant, double the consonant before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Rule 15 – “si” Says /sh/ "si" is used to say /sh/ when the syllable before it ends in an s, or when there’s an s in the base word that changes in the derived form. Rule 16 – Drop the Silent Final E Before a Vowel Suffix Words ending in silent e drop the e before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Rule 17 – Double l, f, s (sometimes d & g) After a Single Vowel In one-syllable words with a single vowel ending in l, f, or s, we typically double the final consonant. We sometimes also double d and g.?