Download Anticipation Guide / What do you know

Anticipation Guide / What do you know??
Answer True or False to the following questions:
______ Genetics is the study of heredity.
_____ Dmitri Mendeleev is considered the father of Genetics because of his work with pea plants.
_____ A plant has both male and female reproductive cells (sperm and eggs).
_____ A “true breeding” can have all different types of offspring. For example: some are tall, medium, or
short in height.
_____ Seed color or flower color is an example of a trait.
_____ Different forms of the same genes are called adaptive radiation
_____ Two parent plants are involved in self-pollination.
_____ Two parent plants are involved in cross breeding.
_____ A plant undergoes sexual reproduction.
_____ A dominant trait of offspring can be produced by crossing plants with two recessive traits.
_____ A 50% chance of rain means that there is a 1:1 probability of rain.
_____ When flipping a coin, you have a 1 chance in 8 of flipping head three times in a row.
_____ If an organism has two identical alleles of a gene, then the organism is heterozygous.
_____ If an organism has two identical alleles of a gene, then the organism is homozygous.
_____ Genotype is the physical characteristics of an organism while phenotype is the genetic makeup of
an organism.
_____ A Punnett square is a game that kids play on the playground.
_____ TT is considered a dominant trait over tt.
_____ A cross of TT (tall) and tt (short) will produce all tall plants.
_____ A plant that has the alleles Tt will be short because it is not pure TT.
Fill in the squares with the correct information:
B
b
B
B
What is the chance that offspring will be dominant? _________
What is the chance that the offspring will be recessive? _______
Two pea plants with smooth seed pods are crossed. Some of the offspring have wrinkled seed pods. What
can you infer about the genotypes of both parents? ______________________________________________
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Complete the following squares:
T = tall
t = short
G = green
TG
tG
Tg
g = yellow
tg
TG
tG
Tg
tg
What words describe the geneotype ttGg.
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What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype ttGg?_______________________________________
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Two green parakeets had babies. One baby parakeet was blue, one white, and one yellow. Explain how
this can happen.
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