Quiz 11 Mendelian Genetics

The way organisms pass traits onto their offspring.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Gene

• Allele

The study of hereditary patterns.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Alleles

• Gene

A Austrian monk born in 1822, "Father of Genetics"

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

What did Gregor Mendel Study to investigate how it passed down its traits?

• Chicken Eggs

• Corn

• Plants

• Pea Plants

The letter combination representing the alleles.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Dominant

• Recessive

What the trait looks like

Example: Purple

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Dominant

• Recessive

Both alleles for a certain trait are dominant.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous Dominant

• Homozygous Recessive

The two alleles for a certain trait are different.

• Homozygous Dominant

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous Recessive

Both alleles for a certain trait are recessive.

• Homozygous Dominant

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous Recessive

A quick way to show how alleles will be combined in the next generation.

• Punnett Square

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Heterozygous