Seventh Grade Edition

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HEREDITY JEOPARDY

TraitsMitosis

or Meiosis

Genetics Terms

Repro-duction

Genetics

Basics

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Traits $100 Question

Name three traits that you can inherit.

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Traits $100 Answer

Height, eye color, hair color, chin shape, face shape, etc.

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Traits $200 Question

What is an acquired trait?

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Traits $200 Answer

A characteristic that you develop during your life. Learned behaviors like riding a bike, reading and talking.

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Traits $300 Question

What is the full name for DNA and what is it’s

purpose?

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Traits $300 Answer

Deoxyribonucleic Acid-chemical that contains genetic information for an organism.

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Traits $400 Question

Where are genes specifically located?

Don’t say DNA!

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Chromosomes

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Traits $500 Question

A human skin cell has 46 chromosomes, after cell division

(mitosis) how many chromosomes will daughter cells have?

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Traits $500 Answer

46 because mitosis produces identical offspring.

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Mitosis or Meiosis $100 Question

If you want to know the inheritable traits in an organism you can look at a pedigree. In a pedigree you are looking for the results of mitosis or meiosis?

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Mitosis or Meiosis $100 Answer

Meiosis

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Mitosis or Meiosis $200 Question

Body cells reproduce using this method.

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Mitosis or Meiosis $200 Answer

Mitosis

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Mitosis or Meiosis $300 Question

Creates identical offspring

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Mitosis

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Mitosis or Meiosis $400 Question

Punnett squares are used to illustrate how parents alleles might combine and shows the probability of inheriting traits. What process controls this type of inheritance?

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Mitosis or Meiosis $400 AnswerMeiosis

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Mitosis or Meiosis $500 Question

What are the names of human gametes or sex cells for males and females?

How many chromosomes do they contain?

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Mitosis or Meiosis $500 Answer

Male-Sperm-23Female-Egg-23

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Genetics Terms $100 Question

Tall, short, blue eyes, brown eyes are examples

of this term.

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Phenotypes

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Weaker genes that are often masked by more dominant ones.

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Recessive Genes

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A person that expresses the dominant phenotype but has a recessive allele in

their DNA.

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Carrier

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Genetics Terms $400 Question

Another name for a hybrid species.

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Heterozygous

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A trait that has either two dominant alleles or two

recessive alleles, but not both together

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Homozygous

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Reproduction $100 Question

How do body cells and bacteria reproduce?

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Reproduction $100 Answer

Asexual reproduction or cell division.

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Reproduction $200 Question

Which type of reproduction produces offspring that receives half of its genes from its mother

and half of its genes from its father.

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Sexual Reproduction

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Reproduction $300 Question

This type of reproduction is involves cell division and produces offspring that is identical to the parents.

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Asexual Reproduction

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Reproduction $400 Question

True or False

A body cell has the same number of chromosomes as a sex cell.

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False

A sex cell contains half the number of chromosomes that a body cell has.

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Reproduction $500 Question

How many chromosome pairs does a human have?

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Reproduction $500 Answer

23 pairs-46 total chromosomes

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Genetics $100 Question

What are the sex chromosomes for male

and female?

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Genetics $100 Answer

Male = XY

Female = XX

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Genetics $200 Question

What is the difference between a genotype and a

phenotype?

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A genotype is the genetic code for the trait that an organism has.

A phenotype is the physical features or visible traits that the genes code for.

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Genetics $300 Question

What would the alleles for a heterozygous hybrid look like?

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Genetics $300 Answer

They would have a capital letter and a lower case letter.

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Genetics $400 Question

If two people don’t express the recessive phenotype for a gene, how can they have a child that does express the recessive phenotype?

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Genetics $400 Answer

The parent was a carrier for the trait.

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DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

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Genetics $500 Question

Two parents are heterozygous for hair color. Both parents have brown hair. How did they produce a blond haired child?

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Genetics $500 Answer

Both parents are carriers of the recessive trait.

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FINAL JEOPARDY

Draw a Punnett Square for the cross of two horses. The male that has a homozygous recessive genotype for white hair and a female that is heterozygous dominant genotype for black hair.-Determine the Punnet Square, ratio and

percentage of phenotypes and genotypes of the offspring.

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