Mendelian Genetics

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How many alleles do you inherit from EACH parent for a specific trait?

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1

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In humans, freckles (F) on the skin are dominant to no freckles (f). If a heterozygous parent (Ff) and a recessive parent (ff) conceive, what is the chance of having a child with NO FRECKLES?

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50%

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A tool used to predict the probability of offspring inheriting certain traits is called a ...

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Punnett Square

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The study of heredity is called ....

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genetics

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In a genetic cross, what must the genotype of a parent be if the offspring show a dominant trait?

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It can be either homozygous dominant (BB) or heterozygous (Bb).

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What is the term for different forms of a gene?

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Alleles

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If a homozygous dominant individual (AA) is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual (aa), what will be the genotype of the offspring?

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All offspring will be heterozygous (Aa).

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What is the principle that states that alleles for different traits are distributed to gametes independently of one another?

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Law of Independent Assortment

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What is the expected phenotypic ratio of a monohybrid cross?

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3:1

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What is the expected genotypic ratio of a monohybrid cross?

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1:2:1