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Define Genotype |
The genetic makeup of an organism |
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Define Phenotype |
The expressed traits of an organism |
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What is the relationship between the dominant and recessive allele? |
The dominant allele masks the recessive allele a majority of the time |
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Define Dominant Allele |
The allele that determines the phenotype of a gene when the individual is heterozygous for that gene |
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Define Recessive Allele |
An allele that has no noticeable effect on the phenotype of a gene when the individual is heterozygous for that gene |
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Define Homozygous |
2 identical alleles for a given gene |
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Define Heterozygous |
2 different alleles for a given gene |
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Define Allele |
Alternate version of a gene |
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Define Trait |
A variant of a character found within a population |
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Define Gene |
A unit of hereditary info within your DNA |
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How do living things pass traits to their offspring? |
They pass traits down through the genetic DNA |
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Why is Mendel so important? |
Because of meiosis and mitosis |
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Explain Mitosis |
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Explain Meiosis |
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What the 2 Mendel's laws? |
Law of segregation Law of independent assorcement |
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What happens during recombination? |
Scrambles genetic info during meiosis. *Possibly could not happen when the location to closely positioned* |
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Draw a punnet square. |
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Describe this pic. |
The daughter cellars are separating to give the seperate genetic information |
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Describe a pedigree |
A pedigree is a family tree of genetics. |
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Complete dominance is... |
Seeing 1 of 2 things of parental varities |
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Incomplete dominance is... |
Neither parental varieties take over |
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Heterozygous is... |
Blending |
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Homozygous is... |
Not blending |
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What is codominance? |
Genes are Dominant together |
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Pleitrophy? |
1 gene influences multiple characters |
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Your bodies gets changes though.... |
The environment and genetics |
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Mom has Dad has |
Mom has only X Dad has X and Y |
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Meiosis 1 is... |
Crossing over Gene's |
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Mendel is called _____________ |
Father of Genetics |
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Mendel was also a ... |
Monk, This was good because monks had a good education of science and math. |
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Why did mendel use plant pea plants? |
To determine the patterns of inheritance. |
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What does Mendel's "factor" mean? |
It means gene; an allele is a single, variant of a gene |
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Genotype- |
Type of gene; letter (allele) combination |
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Phenotype- |
Physical expression of the genotype |
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What are the different inheritance patterns? |
Complete dominance, incomplete dominance, codominance |
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Homozygous dominance- |
HH |
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Heterozygous- |
Hh |
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Homozygous recessive |
hh |
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Explain the law of segregation |
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Explain the law of independent assortment |
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Mendel's laws correlate with.... |
Chromosome separation in meiosis |
