Passing On Characteristics (3) 👁️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Question 1

Asexual reproduction

Answer 1

The formation of living things from one parent only.

Question 2

Sexual reproduction

Answer 2

The production of living things by combining cells from two parents.

Question 3

Name for a sex cell?

Answer 3

Gamete

Question 4

Sexual reproduction involves two gametes joining together to form a single cell called a …?

Answer 4

Zygote

Question 5

Fertilisation

Answer 5

Joining or fusion of sex cells

Question 6

Characteristics

Answer 6

Traits or features of an organism that can be passed on from parents to their offspring

Question 7

Variation

Answer 7

Differences

Question 8

Examples of genetically controlled human characteristics

Answer 8

• eye colour
• freckles
• ability to roll tongue
• having one heart

Question 9

Genetic variation

Answer 9

Differences passed on from parents to their children by genes.

Question 10

Non-inherited variation

Answer 10

Differences that are not controlled by genes.

Question 11

Chromosomes

Answer 11

Thread - like structures found in the nucleus of each plant and animal cell

Question 12

Chromosomes are made of?

Answer 12

DNA and protein

Question 13

Genes

Answer 13

Short sections of DNA located on chromosomes

Question 14

Non _ dominant version is also called the..?

Answer 14

Recessive version

Question 15

Genotype

Answer 15

The genes an organism possesses

Question 16

Phenotype

Answer 16

What the organism looks like

Question 17

Pedigree chart

Answer 17

A diagram showing the physical appearances of individual in a family from one generation to the next.