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BASIC GENETICS
CARMALT - Life Science
Question | Answer |
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Monk who studied genetics | GREGOR MENDEL |
Plant Mendel cross-pollinated and studied | PEA |
When plants self-pollinated, Mendel saw offspring of tall plants were tall and offspring of short plants were sort. He called these offspring ____. | PURE |
When Mendel cross-pollinated pure tall and pure short plants, all the offspring were ___. | TALL |
Mendel called cross-pollinated plants _____. | HYBRIDS |
Hybrid pea plants had: A. both tall parent plants B. both short parent plants C. both tall and short parent plants | BOTH TALL AND SHORT PARENT PLANTS |
In hybrid plants, what traits are visible? | DOMINANT |
In hybrid plants, what traits are hidden? | RECESSIVE |
What is the 4-square diagram is used to show how traits are passed to the next generation? | PUNNETT SQUARE |
The uppercase letter, such as used by "T" and "t" for tallness, represents _____. | DOMINANT GENE |
The lowercase letter, such as used by "T" and "t" for tallness represents _____. | RECESSIVE |
In the Punnett Square, a parent with two dominant genes or "TT" and a parent with two recessive genes or "tt" will have how many hybrid offsping? | FOUR (or all) |
In the Punnett Square, a parent with two dominant genes or "TT" and a hybrid parent with one dominant and one recessive gene or "Tt" will have how many hybrid or "Tt" offspring? | TWO |
In the Punnett Square, a parent with two dominant genes or "TT" and a hybrid parent with one dominant and one recessive gene or "Tt" will have how many dominant or "TT" offspring? | NONE |
What eye color is dominant in human population? | BROWN |
What hair color is dominant in human population: dark or light | DARK |
What hair type is dominant in human population: curly or straight? | CURLY |
Are dimples a dominant trait? | NO |
Which tongue type is dominant in human population: roller or non-roller? | ROLLER |
Which ear lobes are dominant in human population: attached or unattached? | UNATTACHED |
Chromosomes are inside the _____ of a cell. | NUCLEUS |
Chromosomes are structures that contain genetic material called _____. | DNA |
An organism's physical traits are stored in the _____. | DNA |
Each chromosome contains pairs of _____. | GENES |
A segment of DNA that specifies a specific trait in an organism is a _____. | GENE |
How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have? | 23 |
How many pairs of chromosomes are identical in humans? | 22 |
One pair of chromosomes in humans are different because this pair determines what? | GENDER OR SEX |
In gender-determining chromosomes, males have: A. both XX chromosomes B. both YY chromosomes C. one X and one Y chromosome | C. ONE "X" AND ONE "Y" CHROMOSOME |
In gender-determining chromosomes, females have: A. both XX chromosomes B. both YY chromosomes C. one X and one Y chromosome | A. BOTH "XX" CHROMOSOMES |
Which chromosome does the offspring need to get from the father to be a boy? | Y CHROMOSOME |
Which chromosome does the offspring need to get from the fatehr to be a girl? | X CHROMOSOME |
Each version of the gene is called an _____. | ALLELE |
Dominant alleles are represented by: A. lower case letters B. upper case letters C. both upper and lower case letters | UPPER CASE LETTERS |
Recessive alleles are represented by: A. lower case letters B. upper case letters C. both upper and lower case letters | LOWER CASE LETTERS |
When the two alleles are alike, such as two dominant or two recessive, the trait is called _____. | PURE |
When the pair of alleles are different, such as one dominant and one recessive, the trait is called _____. | HYBIRD |