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Genetics Jeopardy!

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Mr Hippe

He became curious about why some plants had different physical characteristics.

Who is Gregor Mendel

Another word for physical characteristics.

What is a trait

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What is a punnett square

The term used to describe the method that Mendel used that

forced two different pea plants to breed

What is cross-pollination

A plant that always produces offspring with the same form of a

trait as the parent

What is a purebred

The part of the flower that produces the female sex cell or

egg

What is the pistil

The part of the flower that produces the male sex cell

What is the stamen

The male sex cell

What is pollen

The tool that geneticists use to determine the genotypes of

offspring

What is a punnett square

From figure 2 on p. 72 of your textbook, what is the name given

for the set of offspring that produced 1/4 short plants

What is F2 generation

Synonymous with allele combination

What is genotype

The factors that control traits

What are genes

The different forms of a gene

What are alleles

The term given to describe an organism that has two different

alleles for a trait

What is a hybrid

A capital letter represents ..

What is a dominant allele

A lower case letter represents…

What is a recessive allele

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Who is Gregor Mendel

The father of genetics

Who is Gregor Mendel

The term given to describe the passing of traits from parents to

offspring

What is heredity

The term given to the offspring of the parental (p) generation

What is F1 generation