2.2.3 An Inheritance Story Answer Key
Question: inherited
Answer: Genes are ___, passed from one generation to the next.
Question: What are some traits that are inherited by our parents?
Answer: height, hair color, metabolism, sex, etc.
Question: What is genotype? What is an example of a genotype?
Answer: -All or part of the genetic constitution of an individual or group
-Bb
Question: What is phenotype? What is an example of a phenotype?
Answer: -The physical and physiological traits of an organism that are determined by the organism’s genetic makeup.
-blue eyes
Question: -mother
-father
Answer: For every gene, we have two copies in each of our cells: one we inherited from our biological ___ and one we inherited from our biological ___.
Question: What are alleles?
Answer: Any of the alternative forms of a gene that may occur at the same place on a chromosome
Question: alleles
Answer: The differences we see in individuals, different skin tones, dimples, eye colors, and more, are a result of different ___ for the genes responsible for those traits.
Question: What is a dominant gene? How is it represented?
Answer: -A genetic trait is considered dominant if the associated phenotype is seen in an individual who has only one copy of the gene associated with the trait.
-capital letter
Question: What is a recessive gene? How is it represented?
Answer: -A trait that is evident only when an organism inherits two copies of a recessive allele for a specific gene.
-lowercase letter
Question: In the neurofibromin gene is the functional or dysfunctional gene dominant?
Answer: dysfunctional