Inheritance

Question 1

Monohybrid inheritance

Answer 1

the inheritance of a single characteristic controlled by one gene

Question 2

genetics

Answer 2

the study of the mechanism by which an organism inherits characteristics from it’s parents

Question 3

state Mendel’s law of segregation

Answer 3

the characteristics of an organism are determined by alleles that occur in pairs. Only one of a pair of alleles can be present in a single gamete

Question 4

if 2 parents show a characteristic that is not present in their offspring, what does that mean?

Answer 4

that both parents are heterozygous(carriers) and the offspring is homozygous(recessive)

Question 5

co-dominance

Answer 5

this is when both alleles express themselves equally in a heterozygous phenotype. both alleles are dominant

Question 6

explain how multiple alleles can arise

Answer 6

through gene mutations
a change in the nucleotides, or the bases

Question 7

in sex linkage, the alleles are only found on the

Answer 7

X chromosome

Question 8

which type of inheritance is it if there are more than 2 phenotypes

Answer 8

co-dominance or multiple allele inheritance

Question 9

epistasis

Answer 9

when one gene influences the expression of another gene

Question 10

autosomal linkage

Answer 10

refers to when two genes are located on the same chromosome. this chromosome should not be a sex chromosome