G introductory genetics

Best term that describes the transmission of traits from one generation to the next.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Breeding

• Hybridization

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Punnett squares can be used to predict the probability of:

• having an inherited disease or a genetically determined physical trait

• being exposed to a contagious disease and contracting it

• both of the above

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

If two people who are both carriers for a genetically inherited fatal recessive disease decide to become parents, what will be the odds that their children will also be carriers?

• 1 out of 4

• 2 out of 4

• 3 out of 4

• 4 out of 4

If two parents are homozygous for a genetically inherited recessive trait, what is the probability that they will have a child who does not have this trait in his or her phenotype?

• 0%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

Versions of genes

• alleles

• pure line

• Punnett square

• probability

An organism that carries a specific allele.

• test cross

• probability

• pure line

• carrier

(1822 - 1884) An Austrian botanist who developed the foundational laws of genetics.

• Mendelian traits

• segregation

• Mendel

• monohybrid

Traits that are controlled by only one gene and have a clear dominant and recessive form.

• Mendelian traits

• non-Mendelian traits

• pedigree

• sex-linked trait

To combine the sperm and egg of the same plant.

• self-pollinate

• pure line

• Punnett square

• probability

A population that exhibits all of the same traits.

• probaility

• Punnett square

• pure line

• self-pollinate