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| Who is the father of genetics who did thousands of experiments with pea plants to study inherited traits? |
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| What is the study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring? |
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| Traits which can be passed from child to offspring are said to be _____. |
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| A characteristic that may be passed to children are called ____. |
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| What is the information of life found in the nucleus of every cell of the body? |
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| Sections of DNA which controls a section of the body are ___. |
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| Genes are located on your ____ in the nucleus. |
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| A person has _____ pairs of chromosomes or a total of _____ chromosomes in every cell's nucleus. |
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| DNA is in the shape of a ____. |
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twisted ladder
double helix |
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| Who are the two scientists who discovered the shape of DNA? |
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| What are the four nitrogen bases of DNA? |
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guanine
cytosine
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thymine |
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In DNA, cytosine is paired with _____.
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| In DNA, guanine is paired with ____. |
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| In DNA, adenine is paired with _____. |
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In DNA, thymine is paired with _____.
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| Another word for genes are _____. |
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| How many genes does a person receive from their parents to determine a trait? |
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| one from each parent for a total of two(for most traits, not all) |
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| What are the two genes that determine a trait called? |
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| What is the physical trait of an organism which is determined by the genotype? |
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| What are strong genes which hide weak genes? |
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| What do we use to represent dominant genes in genetics? |
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| What are weak genes which are hidden by stronger ones? |
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| What do we use to represent recessive genes? |
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| If the two genes which make up an organism's genotype are different from each other, the genotype is _______. |
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| If the two genes which make up the genotype of an organism are the same, the genotype is _____. |
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| If the genotype of an organism is heterozygous, which gene will determine the phenotype? |
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| If the body shows both genes of the genotype in its phenotype it is because both genes are dominant. This shows the law of _____. |
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| If the phenotype doesn't express either gene in the genotype, it is because both genes are recessive and the offspring will have a mixed phenotype. This shows the law of _____. |
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| What is the diagram which shows all the possible gentoypes children can receive from their parents? |
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| Another name for homozygous is _____. |
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| Another name for heterozygous is _____. |
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| What is this diagram?[image] |
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