JEOPARDY! Questions—4/2
MENDELIAN GENETICS
100: Mendel cross-pollinated the parental generation, creating the (F2/P/F1) generation
and then self-pollinated those to create the (F2/P/F1) generation.
200: A red flower and a white flower are cross-pollinated. Their offspring are all pink;
they are self-pollinated to produce red, white and pink offspring. This is an example of
what?
300: Describe the Law of Segregation as it applies to the alleles for purple flowers (P)
and white flowers (p).
400: Describe the Law of Independent Assortment as it applies to the alleles for purple
flowers (P) and white flowers (p).
500: Mendel started with the parental or (F2/P/F1) generation using what type of plants?
GENETICS AFTER MENDEL
100: What does the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity state?
200: The probability of recombination depends on what?
300: Blonde people usually have pale skin. This suggests what about these two traits?
400: Mendel discovered linked genes. What does it mean, they are linked? What test
result in flies having to do with body color and wing shape helped him discover this?
500: A mom carries one recessive allele for color-blindness, which is a sex-linked trait.
What does that mean? To which of her children can she pass it on to? BONUS: Can any
of her children get color-blindness, even if the dad doesn’t have it?
EVOLUTION
100: What is NOT included in Darwin’s theory of evolution?
200: Describe Darwin’s theory of descent with modification.
300: How is the use of anti-bacterial soap creating “super-bacteria”?
400: What was the key difference between Darwin’s theory of evolution and Lamarck’s
theory of evolution? (Hint: acquired vs. heritable characters…)
500: For natural selection to occur, what conditions must be true? (More than 1
generation; genetic variation causing phenotypic variation; greater fitness in some;
resource competition.)
POPULATION GENETICS
100: Natural selection acts on the ________, while evolution acts on the ________.
200: What are the 4 causes of microevolution? Which one allows species to adapt to its
environment? Are they random?
300: What is genetic drift? Is genetic drift random? On what type of populations does it
have the greatest effect?
400: What does the equation p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 represent? What does 2pq specifically
represent?
500: What does it mean, a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? What are the 5
requirements a population must follow in order to be under Hardy-Weinberg
equilibrium?