Let’s see how much you’ve picked up with these experiments and the reading – answer as best as you can. (No peeking at the answers until you’re done!) Just relax and see what jumps to mind when you read the question. You can also print these out and jot down your answers in your science notebook.
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1. Define “genetics” in your own words.
2. Describe Mendel’s experiments with peas.
3. What do P, F1, and F2 represent?
4. What were Mendel’s findings regarding tall vs short crosses?
5. According to Mendel’s law of segregation, what are dominant and recessive traits?
6. What is a Punnett Square?
7. An orange amoeba and a red amoeba walk into a bar. Several years later they get married and have a batch of beautiful, red kids. The kids then marry each other and have kids. 75% of that last generation is red, and 25% is orange. According to Mendel’s theories, which color is dominant? Which is recessive? How do we know?
8. What are genes?
9. What is the difference between phenotypes and genotypes?
10. What is the difference between incomplete dominance and codominance?
11. What are genetic disorders?
12. If a gene is sex-linked, which chromosomes could it be found on?
13. In a study on the gene that gives flies wings, 30 of the F1 generation were wingless, and 100 looked like normal flies. How many were wild-type?
14. What are restriction enzymes?
15. What did the Human Genome Project accomplish?
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