Chapter 11 Vocab Assignment
Please make notecards for the following words according to your vocab assignment instructions:
Genetics
Gene
True Breeding
Allele
Segregation
Gamete
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Genotype
Independent Assortment
Polygenic Traits
Haploid
Crossing Over
Tetrad
Hybrid
Phenotype
Codominance
Incomplete Dominance `Multiple Alleles
Meiosis
Trait
Homologous
Diploid
Then write and answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. What is the principle of dominance?
2. What happens during segregation of alleles?
3. Why were true-breeding pea plants important for Mendel’s experiments?
4. What did Mendel conclude determines biological inheritance?
5. How do geneticists use the principles of probability? How do geneticists use Punnett squares?
6. What is the principle of independent assortment?
7. What inheritance patterns exist aside from simple dominance?
8. What is the difference between incomplete dominance and codominance?
9. What happens during the process of meiosis?
10. How is meiosis different from mitosis?
This assignment is due April 13TH and 14th, and will be the last vocab assignment
of Quarter 3.