Chapter 6- Genetics Board Game

Question 1

What are the characteristics that are inherited?

Answer 1

Traits

Question 2

What is the study of biological inheritance patterns and variation in organisms?

Answer 2

Genetics

Question 3

The mating of two organisms is called a testcross. True or false?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What is a type of organism whose ancestors are genetically uniform?

Answer 4

Purebred

Question 5

The law of segregation was Gregor Mendel’s first law. True or False

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What is any different form of a gene

Answer 6

Allele

Question 7

What is a piece of DNA that stores instructions to make a certain protien

Answer 7

Gene

Question 8

Homozygous mean two alleles of a gene are the same and heterozygous means two alleles of a gene are different. True or False?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What allele is expressed only when there are two copies of it.

Answer 9

Recessive

Question 10

What allele is expressed when two different alleles are present?

Answer 10

Dominant

Question 11

What is the set of alleles an organism has for a trait

Answer 11

Genotype

Question 12

What is the resulting trait

Answer 12

Phenotype

Question 13

What is all of an organisms genetic material

Answer 13

Genome

Question 14

A Punnett Square is a grid system for predicting all possible phenotypes resulting from a cross. True or False

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Testcrosses are crosses tha5 examine the inheritance of only one specific trait. True or False

Answer 15

False

Question 16

What are crosses that examine the inheritance of two different traits?

Answer 16

Dihybrid crosses

Question 17

What was Gregor Mendel’s second Law of genetics.

Answer 17

Law of independent assortment

Question 18

What is the likelihood that a particular event will happen

Answer 18

Probability