Mendelian genetics practice

Front

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

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Pea Plant

Front

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

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Alleles

Front

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

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Punnett square

Front

Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

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Father of Genitics

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Gregor Mendel was born in what country?

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Austria

Front

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters?

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Lowercase

Front

The different forms of genes are known as

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alleles

Front

Two of the same genes for a trait (sometimes called purebred). BB or bb

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homozygous

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Two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid). Bb

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heterozygous

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

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parents to offspring

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