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Heredity Vocabulary Review: Understanding Genes, Traits, and Meiosis

This PowerPoint presentation provides a comprehensive review of key vocabulary related to heredity. It covers essential concepts such as dominant and recessive traits, meiosis, Punnett squares, and the inheritance of genes. Learn about how traits are passed from parents to offspring and engage with examples and true/false questions to reinforce your understanding. This resource is ideal for students looking to solidify their grasp of genetic terminology and principles.

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Heredity Vocabulary Review: Understanding Genes, Traits, and Meiosis

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  1. Chapter 4 Heredity Review Powerpoint

  2. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • The process that forms sex cells is…………………………………

  3. ANSWER • MEIOSIS

  4. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • The WEAKER trait, the one that does not show up is……….

  5. ANSWER • RECESSIVE TRAIT

  6. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • Something that is passed down from your parents is………..

  7. ANSWER • INHERITED

  8. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • The STRONGER trait, the one that shows up is……..

  9. ANSWER • DOMINANT

  10. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • A square chart that helps determine the possible traits of offspring is…………..

  11. ANSWER • PUNNETT SQUARE

  12. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • The process by which traits are passed from parents to offspring is……….

  13. ANSWER • HEREDITY

  14. VOCABULARY REVIEW • Word Bank: • Heredity Inherited Genes Meiosis Dominant Recessive Punnett Square • A unit of chromosomes that carries information determining the traits of an organism is……..

  15. ANSWER • GENES

  16. TRUE OR FALSE • We can dye our hair, but that doesn’t change the trait of what we have.

  17. ANSWER • TRUE • If your hair is brown and you dye it blonde, it is still naturally brown!

  18. TRUE OR FALSE • Brown eyes are dominant over blue eyes…….this means that the blue eyes are the stronger one.

  19. ANSWER • FALSE • Since the brown eyes are dominant, they are the stronger one!

  20. TRUE OR FALSE • Blue eyes is dominant over brown eyes.

  21. ANSWER • FALSE • Brown eyes are dominant

  22. TRUE OR FALSE • When you are finding the probability of something, you are finding out that it WILL FOR SURE happen.

  23. ANSWER • FALSE • Probability is the CHANCE that it will happen (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%)

  24. TRUE OR FALSE • If both parents have brown eyes, an offspring can have blue eyes.

  25. ANSWER • TRUE • The offspring can have blue eyes if both parents carry a gene for blue eyes

  26. PUNNETT SQUARE • Draw an example of a punnett square with the father having blue eyes (bb), and the mother having brown eyes but carries the trait for blue (Bb).

  27. ANSWER

  28. QUESTION • What are the chances of the offspring having blue eyes?

  29. ANSWER • 50%

  30. QUESTION • What are the chances of the offspring having browneyes?

  31. ANSWER • 50%

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