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Heredity, Punnet Squares, and Pedigrees

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Complete the following questions. Use your notes if you need assistance. You can submit this as many times as you need.

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What is a trait?

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What is Heredity?

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What is a gene?

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What is an Allele?

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TRUE OR FALSE: You get one allele for a trait from you mom, and one from you dad.

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What did Gregor Mendel discover about heredity?

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Fill in the blank: _________________ Alleles - An allele that covers another allele.

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Fill in the blank: ______________________ Alleles - An allele that is covered, or hidden by another allele.

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Select all answers that are correct.

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How are alleles represented?

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Which of the following are corrent. They may be more than one correct answer.

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Which of the following is the correct defintion of Genotype

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Which of the following is the correct defintion of Phenotype

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Select all that are an example of a Genotype.

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Select all that are an example of a Phenotype.

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Which definitions are correct?

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Select the correct defintions.

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Circle the genotypes that are homozygous and underline the genotytpes that are heterozygous.

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PUNNETT SQUARE PRACTICE

Directions: Black is the DOMINANT fur color for rabbits and white is the recessive. B stands for the black allele and b represents the white allele. A white rabbit would have a genotype of bb and a black rabbit could have a genotype of BB or Bb.
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Fill in the missing information for the Punnett square below

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Fill in the missing information for the Punnett square below

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Fill in the missing information for the Punnett square below

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Fill in the missing information for the Punnett square below

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Fill in the missing information for the Punnett square below

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PROBABILITY PRACTICE

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Find the probabilty of each possible genotype and phenotype using the punnett square above.

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Find the probabilty of each possible genotype and phenotype using the punnett square above.

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Find the probabilty of each possible genotype and phenotype using the punnett square above.

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Find the probabilty of each possible genotype and phenotype using the punnett square above.

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PEDIGREE PRACTICE

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In a pedigree certain symbols mean different things. Draw the correct symbols next to their meaning.

Use the pedigree provided to answer the questions.

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How many males are there?

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How many males have hemophilia?

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How many females are there?

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How many females have hemophilia?

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How many marrages are there?

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How many children did the couple in gerenation 3 (III) have?

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Pedigree 1 shows a family of parrots. One offspring shows the trait for blue feathers. (R = red feathers, r = blue feathers).

Do you think blue feathers is dominant or recessive? How did you know? Support your answer.

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Create your own pedigree or make one up! You must show 3 generations.

Ideas on who to include: You, your parents, Aunts/Uncles, your grandparents, grandparents siblings, your great-grandparents. See mine below!