Seventh Grade Edition

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HEREDITY JEOPARDY Traits Mitosis or Meiosis Genetics Terms Repro- duction Genetics Basics $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

Traits $100 Question Name three traits that you can inherit. ANSWER

Traits $100 Answer Height, eye color, hair color, chin shape, face shape, etc. BACK TO THE BOARD

Traits $200 Question What is an acquired trait? ANSWER

Traits $200 Answer A characteristic that you develop during your life. Learned behaviors like riding a bike, reading and talking. BACK TO THE BOARD

Traits $300 Question What is the full name for DNA and what is it’s purpose? ANSWER

Traits $300 Answer Deoxyribonucleic Acid-chemical that contains genetic information for an organism. BACK TO THE BOARD

Traits $400 Question Where are genes specifically located? Don’t say DNA! ANSWER

Traits $400 Answer Chromosomes BACK TO THE BOARD

Traits $500 Question A human skin cell has 46 chromosomes, after cell division (mitosis) how many chromosomes will daughter cells have? ANSWER

Traits $500 Answer 46 because mitosis produces identical offspring. BACK TO THE BOARD

Mitosis or Meiosis $100 Question If you want to know the inheritable traits in an organism you can look at a pedigree. In a pedigree you are looking for the results of mitosis or meiosis? ANSWER

Mitosis or Meiosis $100 Answer Meiosis BACK TO THE BOARD

Mitosis or Meiosis $200 Question Body cells reproduce using this method. ANSWER

Mitosis or Meiosis $200 Answer Mitosis BACK TO THE BOARD

Mitosis or Meiosis $300 Question Creates identical offspring ANSWER

Mitosis or Meiosis $300 Answer Mitosis BACK TO THE BOARD

Mitosis or Meiosis $400 Question Punnett squares are used to illustrate how parents alleles might combine and shows the probability of inheriting traits. What process controls this type of inheritance? ANSWER

Mitosis or Meiosis $400 Answer Meiosis BACK TO THE BOARD

Mitosis or Meiosis $500 Question What are the names of human gametes or sex cells for males and females? How many chromosomes do they contain? ANSWER

Mitosis or Meiosis $500 Answer Male-Sperm-23 Female-Egg-23 BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics Terms $100 Question Tall, short, blue eyes, brown eyes are examples of this term. ANSWER

Genetics Terms $100 Answer Phenotypes BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics Terms $200 Question Weaker genes that are often masked by more dominant ones. ANSWER

Genetics Terms $200 Answer Recessive Genes BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics Terms $300 Question A person that expresses the dominant phenotype but has a recessive allele in their DNA. ANSWER

Genetics Terms $300 Answer Carrier BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics Terms $400 Question Another name for a hybrid species. ANSWER

Genetics Terms $400 Answer Heterozygous BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics Terms $500 Question A trait that has either two dominant alleles or two recessive alleles, but not both together ANSWER

Genetics Terms $500 Answer Homozygous BACK TO THE BOARD

Reproduction $100 Question How do body cells and bacteria reproduce? ANSWER

Reproduction $100 Answer Asexual reproduction or cell division. BACK TO THE BOARD

Reproduction $200 Question Which type of reproduction produces offspring that receives half of its genes from its mother and half of its genes from its father. ANSWER

Reproduction $200 Answer Sexual Reproduction BACK TO THE BOARD

Reproduction $300 Question This type of reproduction is involves cell division and produces offspring that is identical to the parents. ANSWER

Reproduction $300 Answer Asexual Reproduction BACK TO THE BOARD

Reproduction $400 Question True or False A body cell has the same number of chromosomes as a sex cell. ANSWER

Reproduction $400 Answer False A sex cell contains half the number of chromosomes that a body cell has. BACK TO THE BOARD

Reproduction $500 Question How many chromosome pairs does a human have? ANSWER

Reproduction $500 Answer 23 pairs-46 total chromosomes BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics $100 Question What are the sex chromosomes for male and female? ANSWER

Genetics $100 Answer Male = XY Female = XX BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics $200 Question What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype? ANSWER

Genetics $200 Answer A genotype is the genetic code for the trait that an organism has. A phenotype is the physical features or visible traits that the genes code for. BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics $300 Question What would the alleles for a heterozygous hybrid look like? ANSWER

Genetics $300 Answer They would have a capital letter and a lower case letter. BACK TO THE BOARD

Genetics $400 Question If two people don’t express the recessive phenotype for a gene, how can they have a child that does express the recessive phenotype? ANSWER

Genetics $400 Answer The parent was a carrier for the trait. BACK TO THE BOARD

DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Question

Genetics $500 Question Two parents are heterozygous for hair color. Both parents have brown hair. How did they produce a blond haired child? ANSWER

Genetics $500 Answer Both parents are carriers of the recessive trait. BACK TO THE BOARD

FINAL JEOPARDY Draw a Punnett Square for the cross of two horses. The male that has a homozygous recessive genotype for white hair and a female that is heterozygous dominant genotype for black hair. -Determine the Punnet Square, ratio and percentage of phenotypes and genotypes of the offspring.

FINAL JEOPARDY