What are the odds that their kitten is a heterozygote?
Answer: 2/4
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What are the odds that their kitten is a heterozygote?
Answer: 2/4
For B = black fur, b = white fur: Cross BB with Bb; which is the accurate phenotype ratio:
Answer: 2/4 black ; 2/4 white
A blue fish mates with a red fish and creates a purple-colored offspring. In these fish, color is inherited in what way?
Answer: codominant
What do the letters on the inside of a Punnett Square represent?
Answer: Genotypes of offspring
The specific location of a gene/DNA sequence is called a(n)?
Answer: d) Nucleotide
The study of heredity is called
Answer: genetics
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What are the odds that their kitten is a heterozygote? | Answer: 2/4 |
For B = black fur, b = white fur: Cross BB with Bb; which is the accurate phenotype ratio: | Answer: 2/4 black ; 2/4 white |
A blue fish mates with a red fish and creates a purple-colored offspring. In these fish, color is inherited in what way? | Answer: codominant |
What do the letters on the inside of a Punnett Square represent? | Answer: Genotypes of offspring |
The specific location of a gene/DNA sequence is called a(n)? | Answer: d) Nucleotide |
The study of heredity is called | Answer: genetics |
the father of genetics was | Answer: Gregor Mendel |
Gregor Mendal concluded that traits are | Answer: inherited through the passing of factors from parents to offspring |
hair color and eye color are examples of a person | Answer: phenotype |
the principles of a probability can be used | Answer: predict the traits of the offspring produced by genetic crosses |
a couple has 2 children, both of whom are boys. what is the chance that parents next child be be a boy? | Answer: 50% |
Genes located on homologous chromosomes may have alternate forms that control different forms of a trait. These alternate forms of a gene are called | Answer: alleles |
If an individual possesses two recessive alleles for the same trait, the individual is said to be | Answer: homozygous for the trait |
if a pea plant were homozygous recessive for height, how would its alleles be represented | Answer: tt |
when an organism has two alleles for a particular trait that are different, the organism is called | Answer: heterozygous |
a genetic trait that appears in every generation of offspring is called | Answer: Dominant |
the term for a cross that involves just one traits, such as pod shape is called | Answer: Monohybric cross |
When Gregor Mendel crossed homozygous purple-flowered plants with a homozygous white-flowered plants, all the offspring were purple because | Answer: th allele for a purple-flowered plants is dominant |
in mendals garden pea experiment, he allowed each variety of garden pea to self-pollinate for sever generations to produce the original parents or | Answer: F1 generation |
When Gregor Mendel crossed a homozygous tall plant with a homozygous short plants, the F1 plants inherited | Answer: An allele for tallness from the tall parent and allele for shortness from the short parent |
mendals law of segregation states that | Answer: the two alleles for a strait seperate when gametes are formed |
the phenotype of an organisms | Answer: the physcial apperance of a trait |
a dogs phenotype can be determined by | Answer: looking at the dog |
which of the following describe an organism that has the phenotype Bb | Answer: Heterozygous |
An individual heterozygous for a trait and an individual homozygous recessive for the trait are crossed and produce many offspring. These offspring are likely to be | Answer: two different phenotype |
Tallness (T) is dominant over shortness (t) in pea plants. Which of the following represents the genotype of a pea plant that is heterozygous for tallness? | Answer: Tt |
Mendel's finding that the inheritance of one trait had no effect on the inheritance of another became known as the | Answer: law of independent assortment |
A useful device for predicting the possible offspring of crossed between different genotypes is the | Answer: punnett squares |
the_______produced by each parent are shown along the ides of a punnet squares | Answer: gametes |
what do the letter inside the grid of the Punnett square represent | Answer: genotypes of the offspring |
A female guinea pig homozygous dominant for black fur color is mated with a male homozygous for white fur color. In a litter of eight offspring, there would probably be _____. | Answer: 2 black, 4 gray, 2 white |
in mink, brown fur color is dominant to silver-blue fur color. if a homozygous brow mink is mated with silver-blue mink and 8 offspring are produced, how many would be expected to be silver-blue? | Answer: 3 |
the unknown geotype of an idvidual witha dominat phenotype can be determined using | Answer: a test cross |
if a characteristic is sex-linked it | Answer: occurs only females or males |
Since the allele for colorblindness is located on the X chromosome, colorblindness | Answer: is sex-linked |
which of the following describe hemophilia | Answer: sex-linked trait |