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Genetics Study Guide
1. Calculate the number of cells that would exist if a cell underwent mitosis every 20 minutes for an hour.
2. Give an example of regeneration.
3. Give an example of asexual reproduction.
4. List 5 traits that are inherited.
5. Know and understand the alleles and combinations for blood types.
6. Know and understand Mendel’s early work with pea plants and how he determined dominant and recessive traits.
7. Why is DNA essential to living organisms?
8. Know how to use and read a Punnett square- including percentages.
9. Know the difference between the division of sex cells and the division of non-sex cells (in relation to chromosome
numbers).
10. What is a phenotype?
11. What is a genotype?
12. Know and understand the relationship of chromosomes in cloned species.
13. What is a Punnett square?
14. What is a pedigree and how is it used?
15. Know how to write a dominant allele and a recessive allele (capitol or lowercase).
16. Know how to write the letter pairs for a recessive and dominant trait.
17. Understand the difference between purebred and hybrid, homozygous and heterozygous, and dominant and
recessive (know all combinations of these terms such as: homozygous recessive).
18. What is heredity?
19. What are genes carried on?
20. Give an example of selective breeding, and why is it useful?
21. Evidence of genetic variation proves what type of reproduction (asexual or sexual) and why?