Genetics

The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• DNA

• Traits

What is genetics?

• The passing of traits from parent to offspring.

• The passing of traits from offspring to parent.

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.

• The study of how traits are passed from offspring to parent.

Occurs when pollen from one plant lands on the pistil of a flower on the same plant.

• Equal-Pollination

• Different-Pollination

• Cross-Pollination

• Self-Pollination

Occurs when pollen from one plant reaches the pistil of a flower on a different plant.

• Self-Pollination

• Equal-Pollination

• Cross-Pollination

• Different-Pollination

Which pollination occurs naturally?

• Self-Pollination

• Cross-Pollination

What is the offspring of two animals or plants with different forms of the same trait.

• True-Breeding

• Traits

• Hybrid

• Offspring

What does the dominant trait do?

• Blocks another genetic factor.

• Blocks itself.

• Enhance another genetic factor.

• Enhance itself.

What gets blocked by the presence of a dominant factor?

• Dominant Trait

• Genes

• DNA

• Recessive Trait

What exist as pairs?

• DNA

• Genes

• Traits

• Chromosomes

How many pairs of chromosomes does humans have?

• 46

• 94

• 26

• 23