Genetics

Question 1

What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring?

Answer 1

Heredity

Question 2

What controls traits?

Answer 2

Genes on the chromosomes

Question 3

What is a different form of a trait that a gene may have?

Answer 3

Alleles

Question 4

How many alleles make up a form of a trait?

Answer 4

2

Question 5

What is the study of heredity?

Answer 5

Genetics

Question 6

Who was the first to explain how traits are passed down from parent to offspring?

Answer 6

Gregor Mendel

Question 7

What allele always shows if it is present?

Answer 7

Dominant

Question 8

What allele only shows if there are two of them?

Answer 8

Recessive

Question 9

What is used to help predict the outcome of what an offspring will look like?

Answer 9

Punnett Square

Question 10

How are dominant alleles represented on Punnett Squares?

Answer 10

Capital letter

Question 11

How are recessive alleles represented on Punnett Squares?

Answer 11

Lowercase letter

Question 12

What does Homo- mean?

Answer 12

Same

Question 13

What does Hetero- mean?

Answer 13

Different

Question 14

What is an organism with two of the same alleles?

Answer 14

Homozygous

Question 15

What is an organism with two different alleles?

Answer 15

Heterozygous

Question 16

What is the genetic makeup? Example (Bb)

Answer 16

Genotype

Question 17

What is the way an organism looks or behaves?

Example (blue eyes)

Answer 17

Phenotype