When you need to determine if an organism is homozygous or heterozygous, you need to cross it with a recessive organism and look at the offspring. Why?
If there are any offspring showing the recessive trait, the dominant individual must be carrying the recessive allele - heterozygous
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The different forms of a gene are called...
alleles
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13) A homozygous round seeded plant is crossed with a homozygous wrinkled seeded plant. a. What are the genotypes of the parents?
RR and rr
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11) A Tt plant is crossed with a Tt plant. What percentage of the offspring will be short
1/4, 25%
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12) A heterozygous round seeded plant (Rr) is crossed with a homozygous round seeded plant (RR). What percentage of the offspring will be homozygous round?
2/4, 50%
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Long stalks in some plants are dominant to short stalks. Using the letter "L", what are the possible genotypes of a heterozygous mother and a recessive father?
Ll and ll
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If an organism shows the recessive trait, is it heterozygous or homozygous?
Homozygous
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Recessive alleles are represented by what type of letter?
Lowercase or "little"
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On a Punnett Square, each box represents what percentage?
25%
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The study of genetics is called...
heredity
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boom
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rocket
Go to first place!
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baam
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Dominant alleles are represented by what type of letter?
Capital or "big" letter
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Give an example of the three (3) options of the genotypes using the letter "T"
TT, Tt, tt
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thief
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fairy
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shark
Other team loses 20 points!
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baam
Lose 10 points!
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On a Punnett Square, the parents are located on....