Vocabulary
An organism's physical appearance is called this.
What is a phenotype?
If both parents are homozygous recessive, how many of their kids (out of 4) will have the dominant phenotype?
0
A ______________ trait is a trait that is hidden by the dominant gene.
What is recessive
The state where our mountain lion is from.
South Dakota
An organism's genetic type is called this.
What is a genotype?
Draw a Punnet square where one parent is homozygous dominant and one parent is homozygous recessive. Use G as the dominant gene.
Drawn square
Capital letters are always represented by the _____________ allele, not the recessive allele.
What is dominant
The comparison of these helped us figure out where our Connecticut Cat came from
Alleles or Private Alleles
Two different forms of a gene are called this.
What are alleles?
Draw a Punnet square where both parents are heterozygous for blue feathers. Use F for the dominant gene.
Drawn Square
Hh, Zz, Xx. Each of these are _______________.
What is heterozygous?
An organism with two different alleles is called this.
What is a hybrid or heterozygous?
Brown hair and brown eyes are dominant traits in humans. If both parents have brown hair and brown eyes, how is it possible that their children can have blond hair and blue eyes?
What is both parents are heterozygous for both traits?
HH, TT, zz. Each of these are ______________________.
What is homozygous
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is called this.
What is homozygous?
In guinea pigs, the gene for a rough coat (R) is dominant to the gene for a smooth coat (r). A male guinea pig with a rough coat and a female guinea pig with a smooth coat produce offspring that have only rough coats. What are the alleles of the parent guinea pigs?
What is dad RR and mom rr?
GG, Gg, Gg, gg. Green eyes are dominant to blue eyes. What percent have green eyes? What percent have blue eyes?
What is 75% and 25%