Chapter 7 Vocab.

Question 1

One of the 2 factor traits that dominates the other

Answer 1

Dominant

Question 2

It is science for heredity.

Answer 2

Genetics

Question 3

Explains who both forms of the trait show up again inF2 plants.

Answer 3

Law of segregation

Question 4

An Austrian Monk who lived in the 1800s, who asked a lot of questions and answered many.

Answer 4

Mendel

Question 5

Fertilization occurs when pollen from one flower reaches the female gametes in the same or a different flower.

Answer 5

Pollination

Question 6

One of the 2 factor traits that does not dominate that other

Answer 6

Recessive

Question 7

The different versions of a gene

Answer 7

Allele

Question 8

The two alleles that an individual inherits that make the individuals___.

Answer 8

Genotype

Question 9

A plant with two alleles of the same type (BB or bb)

Answer 9

Homozygote

Question 10

The expression of an organisms genotype

Answer 10

Phenotype

Question 11

A chart that makes it easy to find the possib;e genotype so in offspring of two parents.

Answer 11

Punnett square

Question 12

Two special chromosomes that animals and most plants have.

Answer 12

Sex chromosomes

Question 13

The other chromosomes that aren’t sex chromosomes.

Answer 13

Autosomes

Question 14

Traits that are controlled by genes on the sex chromosomes

Answer 14

Sex-Linked traits

Question 15

The results of Mendels two-trait experiments that led to this

Answer 15

Law of independent assortment

Question 16

The use of technology to change the genetic makeup of living things for human purposes.

Answer 16

Biotechnology

Question 17

Consists of all of its genetic information

Answer 17

Genome

Question 18

It was launched in 1990 and was a sequence of 3 billion bases in human DNA

Answer 18

Human genome project

Question 19

Diseases caused by mutations.

Answer 19

Genetics disorders

Question 20

Genes that are inserted into a patient with a defective gene.

Answer 20

Gene therapy

Question 21

Genes are inserted into plants to give them desirable traits.

Answer 21

Genetically modified organisms (GMO)

Question 22

An individual having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.

Answer 22

Heterozygote