Genetics Word Scramble
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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 |
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