Question | Answer |
heredity | the passong of genetic trait from parent to offspring |
Gregor mendel-born?where? | 1822,henzendorf, austria |
what was gm father of? | genetics |
What did gm studie? | heredity |
How old was gm when he eneterd the monastary? | 21 |
WHat did gm discorver?when did he publish it? | heredity,1895 |
self pollinating plant | hes both mal and femal reproductive structers |
true-breeding plant | self pollinates, all of its offspring will have the same traits as the parent |
cross-pollination | pollination from ano plant fertilizes the ovule of a flower an a different plant |
genetics | the study of heredity |
Characteristics | a feayure that has different form in a population |
traits | different forms of personal features |
first-generation | the offspring from such a cross |
dominat trait | the trait observed in the first generation whenparents that have differnt traits are bred |
recessive trait | a trait that reappears in the 2nd generation after disappearing in the 1st generation when parents with different traits are bred |
Can heredity appera in one generation then dissaper in the next? | yes |
Why did grengor mendel choose the garden pea to discover? | -grew fast-self pollinates-true breeding plant or pure bred-cross pollinates-many different characteristics of the pea |
genes | set of instructions for an inherited trait |
alleles | different forms of a gene |
Dominate alleles | is rep resented with a captiol letter |
recessive alleles | is represented as a lowercase letter |
gentotype | made up of the two alleles in herited from both parents |
homozygous`dominate` | pure bred AA |
heterozygous | Aa-hybrid |
homozygous recessive | aa-purebred |
how many geno types are there ? what are they? | 3. homozygous dominate, heterzygouse,heterozyoug recessive |
phenotype | physical apperance of an organism |
geno | gene |
pheno | apperance |
incomplete dominance | traits do not blen together , but each allel has its own degree of influence |
punnett square | used to organise all the possible combinations of offspring from particular parents |
pedigree | a tool used to trace traits in families |
hemo | blood |