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Genetics Test Scavenger Hunt Review (Chp5 pages 114-132)
Standard 72s: The student will be able to explain how biological traits are passed from parent to offspring.
Directions: You may use a separate sheet of paper for the answers.
1.
What happens when a true-breeding plant self-pollinates? (p. 115)
2. Why were ratios important to Mendel’s work? (pg 118)
3. Define genes and how they are related to parents and offspring. (pg 120)
4. What is the difference between a dominant and recessive trait? (pg 120)
5. Which generation does the recessive trait usually show in Mendel’s experiments?(pg 117)
6. The different forms of a gene the decide characteristics are known as what? (pg. 120)
7. Define homozygous and give an example.(pg 121)
8. Define heterozygous and give an example.(pg 121)
9. Can the environment have an influence on traits? If so, how? (pg. 125)
10. How does asexual reproduction relate to humans? Or does it?(pg 126)
11. How are sex cells different from other human cells? (pg 126)
12. What are homologous chromosomes?(pg. 126)
13. What are sex chromosomes? (pg 126.)
14. What is a feature that has different forms in a population? (pg 116. Hint: another word for characteristic)
15. Why do sex-linked disorders occur more often in males? (PG. 131)
16. What does a punnett square show? (pg. 121)
17. What is a diagram that is used to trace a trait through generations of a family? (pg 132)
18. Define incomplete dominance and give an example? (pg 124)
19. Two forms of a gene, one from each parent are called __________________? (pg 120)
20. Define heredity.(pg 114)
21. Define genotype and give an example.(pg 121)
22. Define phenotype and give an example. (pg 120)
23. What is it called when cells are copied with half the number of chromosomes?(pg 126)
24. What did Walter Sutton discover? (pg 130)
25. Genes that determine sex are carried in __________________? (pg 131)
26. If a genotype in a Punnett square is written Bb, which allele is dominant? (your knowledge)
27. How are the sex chromosomes of females written? How about males? (pg 131)
28. Define incomplete dominance. (pg 124)
29. Explain the relationship between traits and heredity.(summarize page 124 1st paragraph and then add a
sentence about the exceptions to Mendel’s principles)
30. Explain the difference between traits and heredity. (pg 114 and 120)
31. Define selective breeding. (pg 132)
32. What does a pedigree chart show?(pg 132)
33. Create a punnett square for a purebred cross between Homozygous Dominant vs Homozygous Recessive.