Name__________________
http://www.dnalc.org/labcenter/mendeliangenetics/media/unique.html Identify your traits.
1. How Unique are You? _____________ took this test and only _________ people were like you.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/ Click on “What is a Trait?”
2. What is a trait?
3. Where do we get our traits from?
4. Is having hitchhiker’s thumb dominant or recessive (circle one)?
5. What is it called when you have two of the same alleles for a trait?
6. How do you get a pink carnation?
7. All humans share _______% identical DNA.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scintro/
8. What is a stem cell?
9. What does the signal tell the stem cell?
10. What different types of cells can a stem cell become?
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/sctypes/
11. What are the different types of stem cells and where do they come from?
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scresearch/
12. What is the goal of stem cell research? What do they want to do with the stem cells?
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scissues/
13. Read this page and then answer the question. Do you think stem cell research should be happening? Should there
be any restrictions placed on the research? Explain your answer.
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/index.html Click on Animation
14. What did Gregor Mendel do to the stamens of the pea plants?
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/2/concept/index.html Click on Animation
15. What is a phenotype?
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/4/concept/index.html Click on Animation
16. What do you get when you cross yy with YY?
17. What do you get when you cross two heterozygous plants?
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/5/concept/index.html Click on Animation
18. Draw the Punnett Square for Yy x Yy.
19. Click on Problem. How many pea plants will be Tall & Yellow?
How many pea plants will be Tall & green?
How many pea plants will be short & Yellow?
How many pea plants will be short & green?
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/bio/
20. What year was Gregor Mendel born?
21. What did they study at the monastery?
22. What did Mendel do differently in his research that the other scientists trying to unravel the same mysteries did
not do?
23. In what year do many say that Mendel’s papers were discovered?
http://www.kabalarians.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=193
24. List five of the similarities the Jims share that you find most surprising.
http://www.twinsworld.com/stats.shtml
25. How are identical and fraternal twins different?
26. Although they have the same DNA what things are different in identical twins?
27. What are conjoined twins?
28. Why is South Dakota mentioned on this page?
http://www2.edc.org/weblabs/GeneticCounseling/gen_counsel.html
29. Click on Fred and Justine. If they have a girl what is the chance that she will have hemophilia? What if it is a boy?
30. Click on Adam. If Ace mated with an albino female what chance would he have of having albino offspring?
31. Click on Casey and Carl. What chance do they have of having a colorblind girl? Chance of a colorblind boy?
32. Click on William. What chance does Walter have of having white offspring if mated with a white female? A brown
female?
33. Click on Carmen. What chance does Chloe have of having a curly eared cat if mated with a homozygous curlyeared cat? What is she was mated with a straight eared cat?