Heredity

Question 1

What is heredity

Answer 1

The process of passing on traits from parents to offspring

Question 2

Inherited traits are passed on through what

Answer 2

Genes

Question 3

How many allows do each sexually reproductive organism get

Answer 3

2

Question 4

What do you call organisms that received two sets of chromosomes

Answer 4

Diploid

Question 5

What is your genotype

Answer 5

The combination of alleles that you possess

Question 6

If you get the same allele from both parents you are what

Answer 6

Homozygous

Question 7

If you get different alleles from your parents then you are what

Answer 7

Heterozygous

Question 8

What is your phenotype

Answer 8

The way your alleles are expressed

Question 9

What’s the difference between your genotype and your phenotype

Answer 9

Genotype=what DNA says

Phenotype=appearance

Question 10

What is a pattern of inheritance

Answer 10

A system of determining what phenotype is produced by a genotype

Question 11

What is the simplest pattern of inheritance

Answer 11

Mendelian genetics

Question 12

What is hybridization

Answer 12

The crossing of parent genes to create offspring

Question 13

What are the two sex alleles

Answer 13

X and Y

Question 14

Females have the genotype

Answer 14

XX

Question 15

Males have the genotype

Answer 15

XY

Question 16

The X chromosome is how much bigger than the Y chromosome

Answer 16

14x