Genetic Vocabulary
Reproduction
Patterns of Inheritance
Selective Breeding
Genetic Variation
100

This term refers to the physical traits of an organism that can be observed. 

What is phenotype? 

100

This type of reproduction requires only one parent

What is asexual reproduction? 

100

This is a diagram used to calculate the probability of having an offspring with a specific genotype. 

What is a Punnett Square?

100

This is another term for selective breeding.

What is artificial selection? 

100

This term refers to the tendency of organisms that are more "fit" surviving in their environment. 

What is natural selection? 

200

What do we call the genetic makeup of an organism that determines its traits?

What is genotype? 

200

What percentage of genetic material is inherited from each parent in sexual reproduction?


What is 50%? 

200

This shape is used to represent females who are carriers on a pedigree chart.

What is a half shaded circle? 

200

This is the reason why organisms are selectively bred.

What is...organisms are selectively bred for desirable traits. 

200

This is what happened to the light brown mice population over time. 

What is decreased over time? 

300

the name for a segment of DNA that codes for a specific trait?

What is a gene? 

300

Describe the method of reproduction shown in the picture. 

What is budding? 

300

These are the genotypes of parents 1 and 2. 

What is homozygous dominant x heterozygous dominant? 

300

This is a disadvantage of artificial selection

What is a lack of diversity or variation? 

300

Natural selection and artificial selection both lead to __. 

What is evolution? 

400

This describes the allele combination shown in the diagram

What is heterozygous dominant? 

400

The puppies are a result of this method of reproduction

What is sexual reproduction? 

400

This is the chance of having a homozygous recessive offspring from a cross between a homozygous dominant parent and heterozygous dominant parent

What is 0%? 

400

These groups of animals are commonly affected by selective breeding

What are domesticated animals? 

400

This could potentially happen if this organism lost the ability to camouflage. 

What is it would become more visible to predators, increasing its chances of being hunted and reducing its survival rate?

                             AND/OR 

What is make it harder to hunt prey? 


500

During Gregor Mendel's experiments, he crossed green and yellow pea plants and observed that the green phenotype exhibited (showed) this inheritance pattern.

What is recessive? 

500

List three advantages of asexual reproduction

What is... 

1. Requires less energy

2. Requires less time 

3. Only requires one parent

4. Inherit all of parent's traits

5. Quick Population growth

500

This is a pedigree chart for Dwarfism. This is the pattern of inheritance for the genetic disorder. 

What is dominant? 

500

A farmer wants to increase the productivity of their dairy cows. Using selective breeding, this is the trait the farmer should focus on to achieve this goal.

 

What is selective breeding cows that make more milk to increase milk production for the farm? 
500

The Anglerfish uses a bioluminescent light to attract prey. This is how genetic variation could affect this trait. 

What is genetic variation could make some lures brighter, helping those fish catch more prey, survive, and pass on that trait to their offspring?