Ch. 11 Intro to Genetics

Question 1

F1 Generation-

Answer 1

first group of plants produced by cross pollination

Question 2

Homozygous-

Answer 2

organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait

Question 3

Genes-

Answer 3

factors that control traits

Question 4

Heredity-

Answer 4

passing of traits from parents to offspring

Question 5

P Generation-

Answer 5

parental purebred plants

Question 6

Heterozygous-

Answer 6

organism that has two different alleles for a particular trait

Question 7

Purebred-

Answer 7

offspring that are (characterists) identical to the parent

Question 8

Genotype-

Answer 8

genetic makeup of alleles

Question 9

Hybrids-

Answer 9

organisms produced by crossing parents with different characteristics

Question 10

Phenotype-

Answer 10

physical characteristics of the offspring

Question 11

Cross Pollination-

Answer 11

transfer of pollen from the flower of one plant onto a flower of another plant

Question 12

Dominance-

Answer 12

alleles that are more noticeable or occur more often

Question 13

Alleles-

Answer 13

different forms of genes

Question 14

Pollination-

Answer 14

transfer of pollen from male to female flower part to produce seeds

Question 15

Self Pollination-

Answer 15

process in which pollen from one flower falls onto a flower of the very same plant

Question 16

Traits-

Answer 16

characteristics that parents pass to offspring

Question 17

Recessive-

Answer 17

alleles the are less noticeable or occur less often

Question 18

Be able to tell me 4 things that you know about a plant based on its genotype.

Answer 18

-Homozygous or heterozygous (upper case or lowercase and alleles)
-Dominant or recessive (alleles)
-Genotype (ex. black)
-Hybrid or purebred (charactertiscs/traits from parents)

Question 19

Only options for 4 factor punnett sqaures-

Answer 19

9:3:3:1, 3:1, 1:1, 16:0