Genetics and Heredity Review Webquest

Use the websites to answer the questions about genetics and heredity.

Heredity and Genetics

http://www.cccoe.net/genetics/heredity.html
1) What is Heredity? 2) What is the study of heredity? 3) What are traits? 4) What are genes made of? What structures are genes strung together in? 5) What do genes ha e the instructions for ma!ing? What sma""er units are these things made of? #) How a trait de e"o$s de$ends on what two things?

Mendel's Experiments http://www.cccoe.net/genetics/mendel.html

%) Who formed the basic "aws of heredity? &) Why do we ca"" him '(he )ather of *enetics?+ ,) What is s$ecia" about '$urebred+ $"ants? 1-) .ende" decided that traits are handed down through what in the s$erm and egg? 11) How many 'factors+ for e ery trait must a $"ant /or anima"0 or human) ha e? 12) How many factors does each egg or s$erm get? 13) What do we ca"" .ende"1s 'factors+? 14) What are dominant a""e"es?

Genetics and Heredity Review Webquest

15) What are recessi e a""e"es? 1#) What is the scientific term for '$urebred+? 1%) What term do we use for 'hybrid+ a""e"es?

Dominant, Recessive Genes http://www.cccoe.net/genetics/dominant .html

1&) What does homo2ygous mean?

1,) What does hetero2ygous mean?

2-) How do we write a dominant a""e"e?

21) How do we write a recessi e a""e"e? /(ry the questions on the website3)

22) What is $henoty$e?

23) What is genoty$e?

24) What are two genoty$es that cou"d $roduce a dominant $henoty$e?

25) What is the 4567 genoty$e that can $roduce a recessi e $henoty$e?
/(ry the questions on the website3)