Steps of Mitosis
Heredity and Reproduction
Gregor Mendel
Common Knowledge
Vocabulary
100

When the chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell and homologous chromosomes pair up.

What is Metaphase?

100

The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

What is Heredity

100

A scientist who was born in 1822, in Heizendorf, Hungary. 

Who was Gregor Mendel?

100

When particles of the dye and the gelatin slowly mix together. 

What is Diffusion?

100

The entire genetic makeup of an organism.

What is Genotype?

200

In cells that lack a cell wall, the cell pinches in two. In cells that have a cell wall, a cell plate forms between the two new cells.

 What is Cytokinesis?

200

A chart that can be used to figure out the chances of offspring inheriting a certain trait from it's parents.

What is a Punnet Square?

200

He was twenty- one years old when he joined a______.

What is a Monastery?

200

The process in which plants get their energy from.

What is Photosynthesis?

200

An organism's appearence to other detectable characteristic.

What is Phenotype?

300

The chromatids separate and move to opposite sides of the cell. 

What is Anaphase?

300

When a plant is unable to reproduce with another, it does this to reproduce.

What is Self-Pollination?

300

The first type of plant Mendel used for his work:

What are Pea Plants?

300

A cell with a nucleus and organelle bound is a ______ cell.

What is a Eukaryotic Cell?

300

One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic.

What is an Alelle?

400

Before mitosis begins, chromosomes are copied. Each Chromosome is then two chromatids.

What is Interphase?

400

When two parents come together to reproduce and create offspring.

What is Sexual Reproduction?

400

Discovered the principles of heredity while studying pea plants.

What did Mendel discover?

400

The number of steps in meiosis.

What is Eight?

400

The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance.

What is Probability?

500

A nuclear membrane forms around each set of chromosomes, and the chromosomes unwind.

What is Telophase?

500

When only one parent makes offspring a reproduces an exact copy of itself.

What is Asexual Reproduction?

500

Mendel found a 4:1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits in the second generation. True or False?

What is False? ( It's a 3:1 ratio )

500

The breakdown of food without the use of oxygen.

What is Fermentation?

500

The trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred.

What is a Dominant Trait?