Patterns of Inheritance

The man who studied and came up with genetics is

• Watson

• Crick

• Mendel

• Darwin

How many generations are shown in this pedigree?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

How many kids did the mother and father from the first generation have?

• 2
• 4
• 5
• 6

In the second generation-how many people have the disease or display the physical trait?

• 2
• 4
• 5
• 6

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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How many individuals are there in the 3rd generation?

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 6

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What do half colored symbols represent?

• The individual is a carrier (heterozygous).
• The individual expresses the trait.
• The individual has both recessive alleles.
• The individual has both dominant alleles.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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What is an affected individual?

• a person who shows a trait
• a person who doesn't show the trait
• a person who just inherited the trait
• a person with an extra chromosome

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

How many alleles (letters) do each person carry for a trait?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Aa, DD, bB, yy are all examples of

• genotypes
• phenotypes

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