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HEREDITY VIDEO
1. Why do we have two genes for each trait?
2. What kind of letters do you use for the dominant trait?
3. What kind of letters do you use for the
recessive trait?
4. In order to show ‘short’. How
many ‘short’ alleles do you
need?
5. In order to show ‘tall’, how
many ‘tall’ alleles do you
need?
6. How many pea plants did Gregor
Mendel work with?
GENETICS VIDEO
1. Where do genes come from?
2. Which is dominant; brown eyes or blue
eyes?
3. Which is recessive; brown eyes or blue eyes?
4. What does it mean to be a carrier?
5. What can the environment do to your genes?