Biology: Chapter 10 - Sexual Reproduction and Genetics

An organism is said to be _____ when the two alleles for a trait are the same.

A plant _____ to reproduce when its male and female gametes come from two different plants.

What is the name given to the two different forms of a gene?

In_____ reproduction, an organism inherits its genetic material from a single parent.

Tt represents a plant that is _____.

Which branch of biology studies how traits are inherited?

What is the final result of mitosis?

What is a phenotype?

What is a segment of DNA on a chromosome that controls the production of a protein?

What is a cellular structure that contains DNA?

Segments of homologous chromosomes break off and change places with each other.

Which type of trait needs only one copy of the allele to be expressed?

Which phase of meiosis is pictured?

A plant that is Yy will have yellow seeds. Yy is the plant’s _____.

Which law states that genes for different traits are inherited independently of each other?

Pairs of chromosomes, one from each parent, are known as _____ chromosomes.

What is a genotype?

 An organism is said to be _____ when the two alleles for a trait are different.

What is another name for a sex cell?

Meiosis involves _____ cell divisions.

The process by which two haploid cells combine to form one diploid cell.

Mitosis involves _____ cell divisions.

every individual has two alleles of each gene and each gamete receives one of these alleles:

What is the diagram that is used to predict the possible outcomes for a particular cross?

Which form of reproduction results in increased genetic diversity?

What is the final result of meiosis?

In_____ reproduction, an organism inherits its genes from two different parents.

Which phase of meiosis is pictured?

During which phase of meiosis does crossing over occur?

tt represents a plant that is _____.

Which type of trait requires two copies of the allele to be expressed?

TT represents a plant that is _____.

A plant that is Rr will have round seeds. Round seeds is the plant’s _____.

A plant _____ to reproduce when its male and female gametes come from the same plant.

A_____ cell contains one (1) copy of each chromosome.

A_____ cell contains two (2) copies of each chromosome.

What are offspring that result from parents that have different forms of alleles for traits?

What is the separation of alleles that occurs during meiosis?

Which phase of meiosis is pictured?

Which phase of meiosis is pictured?