Module 6 - Heredity

Question 1

• The genetic transmission of characteristic from parent to offspring
• The passing of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another
• The natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from parent to a child

Answer 1

Heredity

Question 2

Types of Hereditary Trait

Answer 2

Monogenetic

Polygenetic

Question 3

-Phenotype controlled by a single gene only (Unifactorial/ Mendellian)

Answer 3

Monogenetic

Question 4

• Quantitative or multifactorial inheritance
• Refers to inheritance of a phenotypic characteristic (trait) that is attributable to two or more genes and their interaction with the environment

Answer 4

Polygenetic

Question 5

Mendel’s Laws

Answer 5

Law of Segregation

Law of Independent Assortment

Question 6

• Explores how genetic materials is inherited from one generation to another
• Elementen (units of inheritance)

Answer 6

Mendelian Genetics

Question 7

Three botanists who rediscovered the laws of inheritance on 1900s

Answer 7

Hugo DeVries
Karl Franz Joseph Erich Correns
Seysenegg Tschermak

Question 8

Most common expression of a particular allele combination in a population

Answer 8

Wild Type Phenotype

Question 9

A variant of a gene’s expression that arises when the gene undergoes mutation

Answer 9

Mutant Phenotype

Question 10

Types of Heredity

Answer 10

Dominant
Intermediate (Co-Dominance)
Recessive

Question 11

A gene variant expressed when present in one copy

Answer 11

Dominant

Question 12

A heterozygote in which both alleles are fully expressend

Answer 12

Intermediate (Co-Dominance)

Question 13

An allele whose expression is masked by another allele

Answer 13

Recessive

Question 14

A graphic method of charting the family history

Answer 14

Pedigree

pie de grue (crane’s foot)