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What are genetics? |
The study of inheritance |
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Who is Gregor Mendel? |
Considered to be the "father" of modern classical genetics |
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What did Mendel study/ discover? |
Studied peas, because they could be grown in large amounts in a very short period of time |
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Gregor studied the ________ of organisms. |
phenotype |
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What is the phenotype? |
physical expression of the organisms genetics |
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What did Mendel infer from the phenotype and past generation genotypes? |
The genotypes of the offspring |
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What is the genotype? |
The actual alleles which make up an organisms genome |
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What are genes? |
portions of the chromosomes which contain information to build proteins |
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What are alleles? |
variations in genes |
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Genes are classically considered the basic units of |
inheritance |
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Most animals have __ copies of every gene (diploid). |
two |
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What |
a genotype where the organism has the same alleles for a particular gene |
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What are heterozygous? |
a genotype where organisms have different alleles |
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What is a di hybrid cross? |
a punnett square which demonstrates two genes and how they cross between each other |
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What are autosome chromosomes? |
chromosomes not involved with gender identity |
