DNA
What the backbone is made of.
What is alternating sugars and phosphates?
Mutations are changes in.
What are the number, type, and order of bases?
Heredity is the process of.
What is the passing of genetic material from parents to offspring?
What Punnett Squares are used for.
What is to predict possible genotypes of offspring in a given cross?
A nucleotide is made of.
What is a base, sugar, and phosphate group?
The four bases of DNA.
What is Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
Deletion, insertion, or substitution happens when.
What is a base gets left out, an extra base is added, or one base is replaced by another?
Dominant and recessive traits determine phenotype by.
What are dominant traits overpower the recessive traits but if there are two recessive traits then it shows?
For each gene, parents have two of this.
What are alleles?
The pairs of bases that match with each other.
What is Adenine and Thymine, and Cytosine and Guanine?
Segments of DNA that make up a certain trait.
What is a gene?
Mutations affect the organism because.
What is they can be beneficial, neutral, or harmful?
Your genotype is homozygous if.
What is if both of your alleles are recessive or dominant.
Punnett Squares were invented by.
Who is Punnett?
Each parent gives their child this amount of chromosome pairs.
What are 23 pairs?
How DNA makes copies of itself.
What is replication?
Mutations that cause cancer and other diseases.
What is genetic disorder?
Acquired traits are.
What is skills you learned to do?
Pedigrees are most often used for this.
What is to trace the occurrence of a trait through generations of a family?
The letter an allele is represented by is usually.
What is the first letter of the dominant characteristic?
DNA is in this shape.
What is a double helix?
Mutagens affect DNA because.
What is physical or chemical agents that damage DNA?
Incomplete dominance and codominance are when.
What is when both alleles contribute to the result?
Heterozygous people who carry a trait but do not show it are called this.
What are carriers?
This person made the first major experiments about heredity.
Who is Mendel?