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Genetics-McCall
Heredity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is heredity? | Physical characteristics being passed from parent to offspring |
| What is a trait? | different forms of characteristics controlled by the alleles inherited from parents |
| what are genetics? | scientific study of heredity |
| what is a purebred? | have identical alleles-homozygous |
| what is a hybred? | have 2 different alleles-heterozygous |
| wht is a gene? | factors that control traits |
| what is an allele? | different forms of a gene where some are dominant some are recessive |
| what is a dominant allele? | always shows up in a trait if present-R |
| what is a recessive allele? | hidden when dominate allele is present-shows only when two are present-r |
| what is a punnet square? | shows all possibilities of a genetic cross |
| what is a phenotype? | physical appearance |
| what is a genotype? | genetic makeup |
| what is a homozygous? | 2 identical alleles-purebred |
| what is a heterozygous? | 2 different alleles-hybred |
| Who is Mendel? | discovered genes and alleles proved that organisms were not simply a blend of their parents' characteristics but determined by individual seperate alleles inherited from each parent |
| what is selective breeding? | process |