2.  The table you sit at is your team  I will put a question up on the board  First group who has the correct answer will receive the point  The group with the most points at the end will receive a fabulous prize!

3.  What is the complete genetic material contained in an individual?

4.  Genome

5.  What is a threadlike structure of a nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells?

6.  DNA

7.  What is a genotype of an individual with two different alleles for a given trait?

8.  Heterozygous

9.  What are the possible genotypes for straight hair  Straight(S) hair is dominant to curly(s)

10.  SS  Ss

11.  All chromosomes except the sex chromosomes are called

12.  Autosomes

13.  Occurs when the phenotype of the offspring is in between the phenotypes of the two parnets

14.  Incomplete Dominance

15.  A trait that is carried on the sex chromosomes is called?

16.  Sex – link trait

17.  What is a segment of DNA that codes proteins?

18.  Gene

19.  What shape is DNA in?

20.  Twisted Ladder  Double Helix

21.  Where in the cell are all the chromosomes located?

22.  Nucleus

23.  What are the four bases that make up the rungs of the DNA Ladder?

24.  Thymine  Adenine  Guanine  Cytosine

25.  Who was the founder of genetics?

26.  Gregor Mendel

27. How did Mendel discover genetics?

28.  Crossing pea plants and looking at different traits from the cross

29.  What are some of the traits Mendel looked at?

30.  Flower color  Seed color  Seed shape  Pod shape  Pod color  Flower position  Stem height

31.  What is a breeding experiment that tracks the inheritance of two traits?

32.  Dihybrid cross

33.  What is a way to determine traits that are passed on?

34.  Punnett square

35.  What are the possible genotype(s) for this cross? R R rr R = red eyes r = white eyes

36.  Rr

37.  What are the possible phenotype(s) for this cross? R R rr R = red eyes r = white eyes

38.  Red eyes

39.  What are the possible genotypes for the offspring? RRYY RRYy RrYY RrYy RRYy RRyy RrYy Rryy RrYY RrYy rrYY rrYy RrYy Rryy rrYy rryy RYRyrYryRY Ry rY ry

40.  RRYY  RRYy  RrYY  RrYy  Rryy  rrYy  rryy

41.  If this punnett square shows incomplete dominance, what are the possible phenotypes? R r Rr R = Red flower r = white flower

42.  Red  Pink  White

43.  Explain co-dominance

44.  When the heterozygous offspring show both phenotypes

45.  Explain the difference between genotype and phenotype

46.  Phenotype = visible trait determined by the genotype  Genotype = the genetic make up of an organism

47.  When two alleles in a gene pair are different, then one allele can control the expression of the trait and the other can be hidden is called?

48.  Law of Dominance

49.  An individual who has the allele for a trait or disease but does not have the disease or outwardly express the trait is called?

50.  Carrier

51.  Reproductive Cell

52.  Gamete

53.  Any characteristic that can be passed be inherited from parent to offspring

54.  Trait

55.  What is a pedigree?

56.  A diagram of the genetic history of an individual