Genetics: The Science of Heredity

Punnett squares are useful because the

What three letter code tells that the protein is complete?

The main function of genes is to control

What process is shown in this diagram

The likelihood that a certain event will happen is called

What is a number that describes how likely it is that a certain event will happen?

What is the probability that the offspring will have long hair

What is the phenotype of offspring that have the genotype hh

The different form of genes are called

According to chromosome theory

Which strand of DNA was used to make the mRNA

For codominant traits, heterozygous organisms have a phenotype that shows

When a plant has two dominant alleles for tall stems, its alleles are written as

Genetic material from two parents combines during

A body cell of an organism has twelve chromosomes, how many chromosomes do the sex cells have?

The cytoplasm is the part of the cell where

An allele whose trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present is a

In the first stage of protein synthesis,

Both DNA and RNA have

How many sets of chromosomes does a diploid cell contain?

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called

An organism that has two different alleles for a trait is

An organisms phenotype is its

The process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells is

A change in a gene or chromosome is a(n)