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Mendelian Genetics Study Guide
1.
What do you end up with after mitosis?
2. What do you end up with after meiosis?
3. What is crossing over?
4. Differentiate between haploid and diploid.
5. What symbol is used for haploid? Diploid?
6. What is an allele?
7. What do we call offspring that have two true-breeding parents with different traits?
8. What did Mendel see in his F2 generation?
9. What did Mendel conclude from his experiments?
10. What were Mendel’s 3 laws and what did each one state?
a.
b.
c.
11. What is genotype?
12. What is phenotype?
13. Define:
a. Homozygous:
b. Heterozygous:
c.
Homozygous dominant:
d. Homozygous recessive:
14. What does pure or purebred mean?
15. What does hybrid mean?
16. Differentiate between a monohybrid cross and a dihybrid cross.
17. What does a punnett square show us?
18. What do the letters along the side of a punnett square represent?
19. What is incomplete dominance?
20. Give an example of incomplete dominance.
21. What is codominance?
22. Give an example of codominance.
23. What are multiple alleles?
24. How is blood type an example of multiple alleles?
25. What are polygenic traits?
26. Give an example of a polygenic trait.
27. List the possible combinations of alleles that could end up in a gamete of a parent with the following
genotype: AaBb (hint: use FOIL).
*Know how to do monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. Be able to figure out percentages and ratios of
genotypes and phenotypes from a cross.