Mendelian Genetics

Draw

Let's say I have a Yellow flower and a red flower. I then bred them together. What would the children look like? Draw 3 of them.

​Go to teams and open up the warm up activity.
Offspring=babies
Characteristics= Traits To calculate percentage:
Trait1/(#trait1+#trait2)

Open Ended

Why don't you look like an elephant?

Multiple Choice

True or false: Parents traits blend in their offspring, like mixing paint.

• Always true

• Sometimes true

• Always false

Multiple Choice

True or false: if you look more like your mother, you received more of her genes than your father's genes.

• Always true

• Sometimes true

• Always false

Multiple Choice

All genetic traits are inherited the same way.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Who is Gregor Mendel

• an Austrian Monk from the mid 1800s who contributed to the study of Genetics

• The scientist who discovered the structure of DNA

• a British scientist who discovered penicillin

• The scientist who used X-Ray Crystallography to shed light on the structure of DNA

Multiple Choice

What did Gregor Mendel study?

• Mold Spores

• Pea Plants

• Sun Flowers

• Rats

Multiple Choice

an observable characteristic

• trait

• personality

• cell

• DNA

Multiple Choice

A version of a gene

• variation

• mutation

• allele

• genotype

Multiple Choice

An individual's characteristics are determined by factors that are passed from one parental generation to the next. These factors are known as ___________.

• Traits

• Alleles

• Genes

• Gametes

Poll

Are you right handed or left handed?

• Right

• Left

Poll

When you clasp your hands, is your right thumb over your left or your left over your right?

• Right over left

• Left over right

Poll

Do you have a hitchhiker's thumb?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Which finger does your pinky look like?

• A

• B

• C

Poll

When you cross your arms is it right over left or left over right?

• Right over left

• left over right

Poll

Do you have a widow's peak?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Is your hair dark or light?

• Dark

• Light

Poll

Is your hair wavy/curly or straight?

• Wavy/curly

• Straight

Poll

Do you have dark eyes or light eyes?

• Dark

• Light

Poll

Freckles or no freckles?

• Freckles

• No Freckles

Poll

Can you roll your tongue?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Do you have dimples?

• yes

• No

Poll

Do you have a chin dimple?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Are your earlobes attached or unattached?

• Attached

• Unattached

Open Ended

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3 things you learned, 2 questions, 1 thing you DO NOT understand.