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Study guide for Chapter 2 quiz
This quiz will cover lessons 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, with an emphasis on lesson 2.3
Important Vocabulary:
2.1) traits, gene, chromosome, genotype, phenotype
2.2) genetics, heredity, allele, Punnett square, dominant, recessive,
homozygous, heterozygous, principle of segregation, law of independent
assortment
2.3) evolution, mutation, natural selection, selective breeding, adaptive
radiation, extinction
People to know:
Mendel, Darwin, Wallace
Important Concepts:
Genotype verse phenotype (2.1)
How the environment can impact phenotype (2.1)
Genes for traits are made of DNA, found in chromosomes in the nucleus of
cells (2.1)
Dominant verse recessive alleles (2.2)
Mendel’s principles of Dominance, Segregation and Independent Assortment
(2.2)
Using Punnett squares to predict phenotype/genotype of possible offspring
(2.2)
How living & nonliving factors impact species survival & appearanceremember pepper moths! (2.3)
Darwin/Wallace’s theory of natural selection (2.3)
How natural selection (with mutation and selective breeding) can lead to
evolution of species (2.3)
Causes of extinction (2.3)