Genetics:

Question 1

Mendel’s Laws:

Answer 1

• George Mendel is the “father of genetics”

- He did experiments on pea plants and showed how certain characteristics were passed on from generation to generation

Question 2

What is genetics?

Answer 2

The study of how traits are passed down from parent to offspring

Question 3

Vocabulary

Answer 3

• Dominant Traits: most common, will always beat out a recessive trait. Given a capital letter
• Recessive Traits: least common, will always lose to a dominant trait. Given a lower case letter
• Codominace: two traits are equally dominant meaning both traits show up in the offspring
• sex-linked: a trait associated with a gene that is carried only by the male or female parent
• polygenic: a trait that is controlled by a group of nonalleic genes (called poly gene) supplement
• multiple alleles: a single trait has several different forms.