Genetics and Heredity

Genetics is the study of

• Genes

• Genes and Heredity

• Living things

• Heredity

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Heredity is

• the characteristics that make all humans alike.

• the combination of information from your parents.

• the passing of traits from one generation to the next.

• what carries information about physical traits.

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The person who discovered the rule of heredity

• Nelson Mandela

• Gregor Mendel

• Isaac Newton

• Harold Washington

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Gregor Mendel bred what type of plant

Draw a Punnet square

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A physical characteristic or trait to describe humans

• backbone

• fins

• creates own food through photosynthesis

• long tail

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These carry the information that determine your physical traits

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A factor that always "wins" or presents is called

A factor that gets hidden or least likely to present is called

• dominant

• allele

• recessive

• genotype

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Draw an animal with the physical trait of pointy ears.

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