Genetics Vocabulary Review
Students will review the vocabulary words learned and used during a biology unit on genetics. (Game is designed to play halfway through the unit to reinforce the ability to recall terms used during the unit).
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Topics of this game:
- The study of heredity
- Process in which the male reproductive cells join with the female reproductive cells during sexual reproduction.
- A specific characteristic
- A factor that is passed from parent to offspring
- Alleles
- Principle of Dominance
- Dominant
- Recessive
- Parent Generation; the FIRST two individuals that mate in a genetic cross
- First generation of offspring obtained from an experimental cross of two organisms.
- Offspring resulting from crossing the F1 generation
- The separation of paired alleles on homologous chromosomes during Meiosis 1 so that alleles are in different gametes
- Gametes
- Probability
- Homozygous
- Heterozygous
- Physical or expressed trait (ex: wrinkled, smooth, blue eyes, etc).
- Gene pairing (ex: RR, Rr, rr)
- Austrian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as the Father of Genetics (1822-1884).
- Passing down genes from one generation to the next
- Diploid
- Haploid
- Principle of independent assortment
- A form of inheritance in which neither allele is completely dominant, resulting in a third phenotype that is a combination or "blending" of the two phenotypes.
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