alleles separate during meiosis, offspring will inherit one allele for each trait from each parent
What is the principle of segregation?
200
Mendel used pea plants to study ______ of traits.
What is inheritance?
200
The haploid number is 8, so the diploid number is ___.
What is 16?
300
an inheritable characteristic
What is a trait?
300
Organisms with different alleles for a particular trait are said to be _________________.
What is heterozygous?
300
Offspring that result from crosses between true-breeding parents with different traits are called _________.
What are hybrids?
300
Gametes are produced by a process called ______.
What is meiosis?
400
the actual genes of an organism such as
PP, Pp, or pp
What is a genotype?
400
Purple (P)
white (p)
A pure-breeding purple is cross-pollinated with a pure-breeding white?
A. What phenotype will the offsprings have?
B. What genotype will the offsprings have?
What is
A. purple
B. Pp
400
The principles of ______ can be used to predict the traits of the offspring of a genetic cross.
What is probability?
400
The ________ __________ is used to show the results of a genetic cross, the genotypes of the offsprings and the alleles for each parent.
What is the Punnett square?
500
the outward expression of the genes such as purple or white flowers
What is a phenotype?
500
In mice, white (W) is dominant over brown (w), how can 2 white mice produce a brown mouse? What are the genotypes of each parent? What is the genotype of the brown offspring?
Each white mouse is heterozygous (Ww).
Ww x Wx
The genotype of the brown offspring is ww.
500
study of heredity
What is genetics?
500
Organisms with different alleles for a particular trait are said to be _________________.