The characteristic of an organism that makes it unique.
What is a trait?
The amount of genes you get from EACH PARENT.
What is 1/2? (also acceptable: 50%, half, .5)
Reproduction that happens from only ONE parent.
The behavior an animal does to attract a mate.
What is courtship behavior?
The male part of the plant.
That one question only some of you know the answer to.
Beans, coconut, Patricia, dice
A trait that blocks or overpowers another trait.
What is a dominant trait?
A genotype that contains two of the same size letters (example: WW or ww).
What is Homozygous?
A benefit from this type of reproduction is that offspring have genetic diversity and that makes them more likely to survive
What is sexual reproduction?
A behavior that an animal is born knowing how to do.
What is innate behavior?
The female part of the plant.
What is the pistil?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
A trait that is able to be blocked by another trait.
What is a recessive trait?
The ratio of dominant to recessive traits from this Punnett Square
What is 2:2 ?
This type of asexual reproduction happens when offspring grow on the body of their parent.
What is Budding?
Two ways that animals keep their offspring safe from the environment or predators.
What is nesting and herding?
The portion of the male part of a plant that contains reproductive cells (pollen).
What is the anther?
What is the sun?
The way that a trait is written (letters).
What is a Genotype?
A Punnett square for a male with the genotype RR and a female who has the genotype rr.
The way strawberries reproduce.
What are runners?
What it is called when the way an animal grows up changes because of its surroundings (such as a lack of food during the winter time).
What is an environmental factor?
The name of the female part of the plant where pollen needs to land.
What is the stigma?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the Mitochondria?
The way that a trait appears (what it looks like).
What is a phenotype?
The type of trait (dominant or recessive) that PKU is according to this image.
What is recessive?
The term for a benefit of sexual reproduction where all offspring inherit different genes.
What is genetic diversity? (also acceptable "what is genetic variation")
What it is called when the way an animal grows up changes because of the traits it inherits (such as a German Shepherd having long fur).
What is a genetic factor?
This type of seed distribution relies on lightweight, parachute, or propeller shaped seeds.
What is wind?
The letters in the acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid.
What is D.N.A.?