Genetics Pedigree Lesson

The study of ____ is called genetics

• heredity

• dominance

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Create a Punnett square to help you answer the question below.

• A) long in 100% of the offspring.

• B) short in 100% of the offspring.

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• A) Dominant

• C) Recessive

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Who is known as the father or genetics?

• Santa Clause

• Gregor Mendel

• Dwayne Johnson

• Georg Washington

The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• surgery

• archeology

• genetics

• anthropology

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Characteristics, like hair color and height are called traits

• true

• false

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A diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family.

• Punnett square

• Pedigree

• Genetic disorder

• The Law of Segregation

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The study of the heredity and variation of organisms.

• Cancer

• Dominant traits

• Genetics

• Pedigrees

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An organism that has two different alleles for a trait (example: Bb)

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait (example: BB or bb).

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous