Download Heredity Study Guide Chapter 3 [4/27/2015]

BIOLOGY CHAPTER 3 HEREDITY STUDY GUIDE
JUNIOR SCIENTIST____________________________________________
TEST:
PERIOD__________
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2015
1. What did Gregor Mendel do for science?
2. What step did Mendel take to make sure that his pea plants cross-pollinated?
3. What does cross pollination mean?
4. What happens when a true breeding plant self-pollinates?
5. Each parent gives of set of _______________ to the offspring.
6. A plant with two dominant or two recessive alleles is ______________________.
7. List the two types of reproduction:
8. How are sex cells different from other human cells?
9. What are homologous chromosomes?
10. Why do sex-linked disorders occur more often in males?
11. Instructions for an inherited trait are called ___________________.
12. The different forms of a gene are called_________________.
13. What did Mendel discover about recessive traits?
14. Is it MITOSIS or MEIOSIS that describes the way cells divide in asexual reproduction?
15. The diagram used to trace a trait through generations of a family is ________________.
16. What is a feature that has different forms in a population?
17. Sex linked disorders are caused by males having only one ___________chromosome.
18. What is a trait?
19. When a plant fertilizes itself, it is called ________________________________.
20. What kind of plant produces offspring with the same traits as the parent?
21. What is Mendel's ratio for dominant to recessive traits?
BIOLOGY CHAPTER 3 HEREDITY STUDY GUIDE
JUNIOR SCIENTIST____________________________________________
VOCABULARY:
HEREDITY:
DOMINANT TRAITS:
RECESSIVE TRAITS:
PROBABILITY:
PHENOTYPE:
GENOTYPE:
ALLELE:
SEX CHROMOSOMES:
PEDIGREE:
PUNNETT SQUARE:
INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE:
HOMOZYGOUS:
HETEROZYGOUS:
CROSS POLLINATION:
DO THE FOLLOWING PUNNETT SQUARES:
PERIOD__________