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Genetics
Basic Genetics (genotype, phenotype, punnett squares)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| physical characteristics that show up | phenotype |
| Used to predict possible genotypes for offspring of two parents | Punnett Square |
| What is a trait? | a physical characteristic studies in genetics |
| What controls traits? | genes |
| Cross a homozygous red rose (RR) with a homozygous white rose. (rr) What is the probability that you will have a red rose? | 100% |
| How many chromosomes do humans have? | 46 |
| How many chromosomes are in a human's sex cells | 23 |
| With sexual reproduction offspring- | will have a combination of the two parents' genes |
| With asexual reproduction offspring- | are identical to the parent |
| Heterozygous | having two different alleles for one trait |
| Homozygous | having two identical alleles for a trait |
| Dominant | Will always show up if it is present |
| Recessive | Will only show up if there are two |
| Heredity is- | the passing of genetic information from one generation to another |
| If tall flowers (T) are dominant to short flowers (t)-what is the probability of producing a tall flower if you cross two heterozygous flowers (Tt)? | 3 out of 4 or 75% |
| What are alleles? | different forms of a gene |
| actual genes an organism has for a particular trait (shown by letters) | genotype |