1. Genetics Jeopardy

2. GeneticsCellsGeneticsMeiosisMitosis Microscope / DNA Pedigree Charts 100 200 400 600 800 1000

3. Cells 100  What is the smallest unit that is capable of performing life functions?

4. Cells 200 This organelle is referred to as the “Power House” of the cell.

5. Cells 400  This organelle contains instructions for everything cell does; includes DNA.

6. Cells 600  These are considered parts of the cell.

7. Cells 800 What is the theory that states all living things are made up of cells.

8. Cells 1000  What is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell?

9. Genetics 100  This scientist made careful use of scientific methods, which resulted in the first recorded study of how traits pass from one generation to the next.

10. Genetics 200 A trait that is covered over, or dominated, by another form of that trait and seems to disappear

11. Genetics 400 Trait that always shows up, even when only one of the two alleles is in the dominant form

12. Genetics 600  When offspring inherit one dominant gene and one recessive gene

13. Genetics 800  Both alleles [forms of the gene] are the same.

14. Genetics 1000  How can two parents that have brown eyes have a child that has blue eyes?

15. Meiosis 100  How many times does a cell divide in meiosis?

16. Meiosis 200  How many cells are the result of meiosis?

17. Meiosis 400  What type of cells does meiosis create?

18. Meiosis 600 Why is it important for genetic information to be different in cells created through Meiosis?

19. Meiosis 800  What type of reproduction is Meiosis?

20. Meiosis 1000 Why do cells in meiosis end up with half the chromosomes than their parent cells?

21. Mitosis 100  What type of reproduction is Mitosis?

22. Mitosis 200  How many times do cells divide in Mitosis?

23. Mitosis 400  How is Mitosis useful for living organisms?

24. Mitosis 600  What types of cells does Mitosis creates?

25. Mitosis 800  Which phase does the chromosomes line up at the equator of the cell?

26. Mitosis 1000  Why are spindle fibers and centrioles important in Mitosis?

27. Microscope/DNA 100  Thymine bonds with which other nitrogen base in DNA?

28. Microscope/DNA 200  Guanine bonds with which other nitrogen base in DNA?

29. Microscope/DNA 400  If the eye piece has a magnification of X10 and the objective lense has a magnification of X40, what is the total magnification?

30. Microscope/DNA 600  What part of the microscope regulates the amount of light going through the stage?

31. Microscope/DNA 800  A DNA molecule is made up of what?

32. Microscope/DNA1000  What does DNA stand for?

33. Pedigree Charts 100  This is a chart of the genetic history of family over several generations.

34. Pedigree Charts 200  How many children does this offspring have?

35. Pedigree Charts 400  Does this symbol mean affected or not affected?

36. Pedigree Charts 600  Is this a dominant or recessive trait?

37. Pedigree Charts 800  Is it Autosomal or X-linked?

38. Pedigree Charts 1000  I  II  III 12 3 4 12 3 456 123 What other person in this chart must be heterozygous?