Genetics Early Review

Different forms or colors of a characteristic (like brown hair) is known as a...

• trait

• chromosome

• style

• genotype

What are the different traits we're looking at with the larkeys? Check all that apply

• Fur pattern

• Teeth shape

• Tail shape

• Leg length

• Eye color

What is genetics?

• The study of how traits are inherited

• Why you don't look like your family dog

• Traits passing from one person to the next.

• The DNA found within a cell's nucleus

Who is considered the "father" of modern genetics?

• Einstein

• Gregor Mendel

• Disney

• George Washington

Which of the following alleles represents a dominant genotype?

• YY

• bb

An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

• hidden allele

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• present allele

What is a phenotype?

• The expression of a trait; what you see.

• refers to the genetic makeup of an individual

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (ex. TT or tt)

• the passing of traits from parent to offspring

What was Gregor Mendel studying while discovering genetics?

• Other people he was living with at the time

• His own family heritage

• Pea Plants

• Zucchini Plants

What is heredity?

• Looking like your sibling

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Here, I did a little ditty

• The study of genetics

The inherited combination of alleles is known as the offspring's (Aa or EE)

• heredity

• phenotype

• genotype

• redigree