Mendelian Genetics

Who is Gregor Mendel?

• A monk that experimented with plants to study the inheritance of traits

• A man that cared for plants

• An animal breeder that studied the inheritance of traits

• A scientists assistant that helped with the discovery of Genetics

What is a Phenotype?

• A type of Genetic disorder

• A physical characteristic of a trait

• the genetic make up of a trait

• a trait that can be inherited from your parents

What is a Genotype?

• a physical characteristic of a trait

• a type of mutation

• a type of characteristic that you inherit from your parents

• the genetic make up of a trait

How are Alleles represented in your Genotype?

• They are a form of a trait that is represented by an uppercase or lowercase letter to show if they are dominant traits or recessive traits

• They are ordered from most common to least common

• They are ordered by which trait you inherited from your mother followed by the trait you inherited from your father

• They are represented by a number to signify which chromosome they come from

How does a Punnett Square show the Principle of Probability?

• By showing how many offspring can be produced

• By showing the phenotypes of they parents

• By showing the possible genotypes of the offspring

• By adding more squares to show more offsping

How are Phenotypes and Genotypes related to each other?

• They are both a type of Genetics disorder

• Phenotypes are the physical characteristic and the genotype is the genetic make up of that characteristic

• Phenotypes code for genotypes and help determine which traits are expressed

• Genotypes are separate from Phenotypes

Why is the Principle of Probability essential for predicting the genetic make up of offspring?

• Parents can now know the probability of their offspring having certain traits that can be harmful to their health

• It allows for parents to genetically engineer the offspring they want

• Doctors can now give you the traits that you want based on the probability of your genetic make up

• The principle of probability is not essential to for predicting the genetic make up of offspring

Can the principle of probability be used to identify a parent of an offspring?

• Yes, but only if you have the genotype of the first parent

• Yes, but only if you have the phenotype of the first parent

• Yes, but only if you have the phenotype of the first parent and other siblings

• Yes, but only if you have the genotype of the first parent and other siblings

How might a Non-disjunction mutation affect the alleles of an organism?

• There will be no physical or genetic change

• there will be an incorrect amount of phenotypes for a trait

• the trait will still be present on the organism

• there will be an incorrected amount of alleles for a trait