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Chapter 6 TEST REVIEW SHEET
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Chromosomes and Meiosis 6.1
1. What is a somatic cell?
2. How many chromosomes are in a gamete?
3. What is the result of meiosis?
4. What happens during fertilization?
Process of Meiosis 6.2
1. What happens to homologous
2. What happens during meiosis I?
3. What happens to the sister chromatids during meiosis II?
4. What is gametogenesis?
5. What does the egg contribute to the embryo?
Mendel and Heredity 6.3
6. What is a trait?
7. Describe Mendel’s experiments
8. Why did Mendel choose purebred plants?
9. Why was Mendel successful in his experiments?
10. What did Mendel conclude after completing his experiments?
11. What is the law of segregation?
Traits, Genes, and Alleles 6.4
12. What is a gene?
13. What does the term genome mean?
14. What is heterozygous, homozygous?
15. What is genotype, phenotype?
And know how to recognize them in Punnett squares
And know how to determine them from a Punnett square cross
Traits and Probability 6.5
16. What do the letters inside the Punnett square represent?
17. What does a monohybrid cross determine?
18. What is a testcross?
19. What do dihybrid crosses examine?
20. What does the law of independent assortment state?
Meiosis and Genetic Variation 6.6
21. How many different combinations of chromosomes can be produced from the random fertilization of human
gametes?
22. What is crossing over…and where does it occur?
23. What is the result of the study of gene linkage?