1. Monday February 6, 2017 Day 2 1. Please have these Items on your desk.
Agenda
Science Starters
Sheet
Strawberry
Lab
Packet
What does homozygous mean?
What does heterozygous mean?
What type of letters are used to represent heterozygous and homozygous?
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2. What is HOMOZYGOUS? Both alleles [forms of the gene] are the same
When offspring inherit two dominant genes, (one dominant gene from each parent) they are said to be homozygous dominant
When offspring inherit two recessive genes, (one recessive gene from each parent) they are said to be homozygous recessive AA aa
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3. What is HETEROZYGOUS? When alleles occur in different formsAa
What is HETEROZYGOUS?
When alleles occur in different forms
When offspring inherit one dominant gene and one recessive gene, they are said to be heterozygous
Since the dominant gene will be expressed, they are said to be heterozygous dominant
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4. Who was Gregor Mendel?
Austrian monk who studied mathematics and science
As a boy he could predict the possible types of flowers and fruits that would result from crossbreeding two plants in his father’s garden
Picture taken from biography.com
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5. Who was Gregor Mendel?
Curiosity about the connection between the color of a pea flower and the type of seed that same plant produced inspired him to begin experimenting with garden peas in 1856.
Made careful use of scientific methods, which resulted in the first recorded study of how traits pass from one generation to the next.
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6. The passing of traits from parent to offspring
Define HEREDITY
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
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7. Define ALLELE The different forms of a trait that a gene may have
One form of a gene
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