GENETICS
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Mendel
Who is the
father of
genetics?
$100 Answer from Mendel
Gregor Mendel
$200 Question from Mendel
What plant did Mendel
perform monohybrid
crosses on to discover
laws of genetics
$200 Answer from Mendel
Pea
Plants
$300 Question from Mendel
Mendel obtained his P
generation by allowing
his plants to what?
$300 Answer from Mendel
Self pollinate
$400 Question from Mendel
Which of Mendel’s
laws states that
two alleles for a
trait separate
when gametes
are formed?
$400 Answer from Mendel
Law of
Segregation
$500 Question from Mendel
When Mendel crosspollinated two
varieties from the Pgeneration, how
many varieties were
present in the F1
generation?
$500 Answer from Mendel
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$100 Question from
Studying Heredity
What diagram is
used to determine
the possible
outcomes of a
genetic cross?
$100 Answer from
Studying Heredity
Punnett
Square
$200 Question from
Studying Heredity
The passing of
traits from parents
to offspring
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Studying Heredity
Heredity
$300 Question from Studying
Heredity
A diagram in which
several generations of a
family and the
occurrence of certain
genetic characteristics
are shown is a
$300 Answer from
Studying Heredity
Pedigree
$400 Question from
Studying Heredity
How much of an
organisms genetic
information is inherited
from their mother?
$400 Answer from
Studying Heredity
50%
$500 Question from
Studying Heredity
Having freckles is dominant over not
having freckles. If a homozygous
dominant male and a
heterozygous female have
children, what is the probability
that their offspring will NOT
have freckles?
$500 Answer from
Studying Heredity
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$100 Question from
Vocabulary
• What is the study of
Heredity?
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Vocabulary
Genetics
$200 Question from
Vocabulary
When the two alleles
present for a gene
are different then the
individual is what?
$200 Answer from
Vocabulary
Heterozygous
$300 Question from
Vocabulary
When two dominant
alleles are expressed at
the same time and the
phenotype of the
individual is displays both
of the traits
$300 Answer from
Vocabulary
Codominance
$400 Question from
Vocabulary
This describes an organism that is
homozygous for a variation of a
specific trait and produces
offspring that only display one
variation of the trait.
$400 Answer from
Vocabulary
True Breeding
$500 Question from
Vocabulary
Alleles of different
genes separate
independently of
one another during
gamete formation.
$500 Answer from
Vocabulary
Law of Independent
assortment.
$100 Question from
Genetics
What are the
different versions
of a gene called?
$100 Answer from Genetics
Alleles
$200 Question from Genetics
What is the phenotype for
this individual if yellow
color is dominant over
blue?
yy
$200 Answer from Genetics
BLue
$300 Question from Genetics
Male and Female
reproductive cells that
are produced from
meiosis are called what?
$300 Answer from Genetics
Gametes
(egg and sperm)
$400 Question from Genetics
What is the name for
the physical
appearance of the
trait of an organism?
$400 Answer from Genetics
Phenotype
$500 Question from Genetics
In rabbits, black fur is
dominant to brown. If
two heterozygous
parents are crossed,
what is the
probability that their
offspring with have
brown fur?
$500 Answer from Genetics
25%
$100 Question from Random
A change in a gene
due to damage or
being copied
incorrectly is called
what?
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Mutation
$200 Question from Random
What is a type of protein
that changes the rate of
a chemical reaction?
$200 Answer from Random
An
enzyme
$300 Question from
Random
What type of organic
molecule is a major
component in cell
membranes?
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Lipids
(phospholipids)
$400 Question from Random
The unknown genotype
of an individual with a
dominant phenotype
can be determined
using a what?
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Test Cross
$500 Question from Random
Having freckles is dominant to not
having freckles. If two
heterozygous parents
are crossed what is the
phenotypic ratio of the
offspring?
$500 Answer from Random
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Final Jeopardy
What is another organism
besides a plant that is an
example of an autotroph?
Final Jeopardy Answer
• Bacteria
(Prokaryotes)
• Protists
• Algae