genetics

Question 1

Who is considered the father of genetics?

Answer 1

Gregor Mendel

Question 2

What organism did Mendel study?

Answer 2

pea plants

Question 3

Why are pea plants and fruit flies so good for studying inheritance?

Answer 3

1. many offspring in a short period of time
2. easy to grow and maintain
3. easy to make any crosses you want
4. easy to see and identify traits

Question 4

the study of heredity

Answer 4

genetics

Question 5

a characteristic

Answer 5

trait

Question 6

individuals that are true breeding and have the same traits generation after generation

Answer 6

purebreds

Question 7

individuals produced by crossing parents with different traits

Answer 7

hybrids

Question 8

a piece of a chromosome that codes for a protein (trait)

Answer 8

gene

Question 9

the different forms of a gene

Answer 9

alleles

Question 10

an allele that hides the expression of another allele in the heterozygous condition

Answer 10

dominant

Question 11

an allele that is hidden by another allele in the heterozygous condition

Answer 11

recessive

Question 12

represented by a capital letter

Answer 12

dominant trait

Question 13

represented by a lowercase letter

Answer 13

recessive trait

Question 14

Mendel’s big idea that the parents have 2 factors for each trait but that they separate to form children, and only 1 factor is passed from each parent to the offspring

Answer 14

principle of segregation