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Genetics and Punnett Squares Notes
Some questions to get you thinking:
We all started as one single cell, how did we get from that to what we are now?

How does our one cell know how to grow into hearts, and brains, and tissues, and
bones, and all that?

DNA
1.
2.

DNA and Chromosomes

DNA is wound very tightly around ________ and is the material that
chromosomes are made of

Genes, Alleles and Chromosomes

1.

2.

You have 23 pairs of chromosomes.

Why do you have pairs?

Punnett Squares
Types of Genes
Dominant:

Recessive:

You get one ____________ from mom and one allele from dad.
The combinations determine what you look like

Purebred and Hybrid

Purebred:

Hybrid:

Practice problem:
If a parent has blue eyes and the other parent has purebred brown eyes, what color
eyes will their children have the possibility of getting?