mendel and his peas🫥 Flashcards

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Describe Mendel’s experiments.

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What did Mendel conclude about inherited traits?

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Mendel concluded that two genetic factors control each inherited trait.

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What are dominant and recessive traits?

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A dominant trait is a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor. A recessive trait is a genetic trait that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor.

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Understand how to use and read a punnent square.

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What are genes and alleles?

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A gene is a section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait. Alleles are different forms of a gene.

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What is a pedigree?

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A pedigree shows phenotypes of genetically related family members. it can also help determine geneotypes.

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Understand how to read a pedigree.

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What are the types of dominance?

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Incomplete Dominance- when the offspring’s phenotype is a combination of the parent’s phenotype
Codominance- when both alleles can be observed in a phenotype
Polygenic inheritance- when multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait

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How does the environment affect an organism’s phenotype?

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Environmental factors, like temperature, sunlight, and soil can affect phenotype.

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Know the scientist’s who helped develop the knowledge of DNA’s structure.

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What are the steps of making a protein?

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What are mutations? Know the three types.

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Mutations are changes in the nucleotide sequences of a gene. The three types are

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