WorksheetsMutation/Mendel Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
Mutation in which a chromosome piece reattaches to original chromosome but in reverse orientation
Inversion mutation
A loss of part of the chromosome
Deletion mutation
The process in which a segment of a chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome.
Translocation
a mutation that involves duplication of a region of DNA on the same strand
Duplication Mutation
condition in which an individual has three number 21 chromosomes, caused by nondisjunction that results in Down syndrome
Trisomy 21
The branch of genetics concerned with patterns and process of inheritance. Dominant and recessive genes in one generation determine their proportions in the next generation
Monohybrid cross
Mendelian Genetics
Dihybrid cross
Karyotype
A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross
Karyotype
Monohybrid cross
Punnett Square
Dihybrid cross
A cross between individuals that involves one pair of contrasting traits
Monohybrid
Dihybrid
Karyotype
Trihybrid
Cross or mating between organisms involving two pairs of contrasting traits:
Karyotype
Trihybrid
Monohybrid
Dihybrid
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait:
Monohybrid
Dihybrid
Homozygous
Heterozygous
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait:
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Dihybrid
Monohybrid
Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait.
Mendelian genetics
Recessive
Dominant
Monohybrid
An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
Dominant
Recessive
Homozygous
Heterozygous
"Father of Genetics" and Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas
Charles Darwin
Watson and Crick
Gregor Mendel
Edward Punnett
Individuals that are homozygous that will always produce the same offspring when crossed together
Recessive
Dominant
Heterozygous
Pure breeding
A display of the chromosome pairs of a cell arranged by size and shape with the sex chromosomes last:
Karyotype
Mendelian Genetics
Punnett Square
Trisomy 21
Different form of a gene:
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