Chapter 3 Genetics: The science of heredity

A particular trait has multiple alleles: A, B, and C. How many different genotypes are possible?

The physical appearance of an organism is its

Mendel, who is known as the "father of genetics", work during the mid _______________.

The pattern of inheritance in which more than one pair of genes affects a trait is ______________.

The scientific study of heredity is called fertilization?

Which of these genotypes is heterozygous?

Only changes in _________ cells can be passed to offspring.

Four alleles determine if a rabbit is white, brown, or gray. This is an example of ______________

Which of these is NOT a phenotype?

In a cross between individuals that are Aa x Aa, how many boxes of the Punnett square will be AA?

Height in humans is an example of

The alleles for a hybrid tall pea plant are represented as

Mendel called an individual that has one dominant allele and one recessive allele for a trait a purebred.

A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur is the ______________ of the event.

Which of the following traits is acquired?

An organism that is ______________ has two identical alleles for a trait.

Mendel's experiments showed that the traits of an offspring were not a blend of the characteristics of the parents.

Mendel said that the factors that control a trait exist in pairs.

The pattern of inheritance in which one allele is only partially dominant is

The genetic makeup of an organism is its ______________.

Having pierced ears is an example of a(n) _______________ trait.

For fertilization, the egg cell in the _____________ of the flower must combine with the sperm in the _____________.

Capital letters are used to represent _____________ alleles.

In pea plants, what would the F1 generation look like of a tall stem (TT) purebred with a short stem purebred (tt)?

Genes are carried from parents to offspring on structures called

If a plant with red flowers crossed with a plant with white flowers produces a plant with pink flowers? Ex.

Which of these is NOT a way to express probability?

When parent plants are crossed, scientist refer to the first generation of offspring as

What Mendel called factors are now called

A cow with a mix of red hairs and white hairs has a genotype H^RH^W. This is an example of

A seed can be round or wrinkled. Seed shape is ____________.

The pattern of inheritance in which there are three of more possible alleles for a trait is

A hybrid organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same form of the trait.

The pattern of inheritance in which both genes are expressed equally

A Punnett square shows the combination of _______________ that parents can pass on to an offspring.

In pea plants, what would the F2 generation look like of two F1 hybrid with tall stems (Tt)?