RMS Genetics Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material of all organisms | DNA |
A type of nucleic acid that carries codes for making proteins from the nucleus to the ribosome | RNA |
Any permanent change in a gene or chromosome of a cell; may be beneficial, harmful or have little effect to the organism | Mutation |
The different forms of trait that a gene might have | Allele |
Receive different information, or different alleles for a trait from each parent. The cross between two individuals | Hybrid |
A factor that dominates and masks the recessive trait | Dominant Recessive |
Letters that form a code, that stand for the genetic makeup of an organism | Genotype |
The way an organism looks or behaves as a result of the genetic make up | Phenotype |
An organism with two alleles that are the same | Homozygous |
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait | Heterozygous |
A tool used to predict the results/ probability of genetics | Punnett Square |
The study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles | Genetics |
Biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA to improve some function | Genetic Engineering |
Austrian monk Gregor Mendel, 1856 | Father of Genetics |
Who was the father of Genetics? | Gregor Mendel |
Mendel studied over 30,000 this type of plant to determine the probability of genetics? | Pea plants |
The passing of traits from parent to offspring | Heredity |
GG, Gg, gg | Genotype |
Brown hair, blue eyes, hitch hikers thumb | Phenotype |
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