Genetics Jeopardy

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$100 Question Who was called the Father of Genetics? What did he study?

$100 Answer Gregor Mendel, traits of pea plants

$200 Question Name a heterozygous genotype, a homozygous dominant genotype, and a homozygous recessive genotype

$200 Answer Rr RR rr

$300 Question The physical expression of a trait is called the _________

$300 Answer Phenotype

$400 Question The genetic two alleles that an organism inherits from parents (one from mom, one from dad) is called the _________________

$400 Answer Genotype

$500 Question The offspring of a pure, true-breeding generation (P generation) are called the ___ generation

$500 Answer F1

$100 Question Incomplete dominance is a ______ of traits

$100 Answer Blend

$200 Question Codominance is a ______ of traits

$200 Answer Mixture

$300 Question In incompletely dominant tulips, blue is dominant and yellow is recessive. Cross a blue and yellow tulip, and explain the offspring phenotype

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$400 Question In hummingbirds, red and yellow feathers are codominant. Cross a red bird with a yellow bird, and explain the offspring phenotype

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$500 Question Codominant or incompletely dominant?

$500 Answer Codominant

$100 Question If you were to flip a coin 26 times, how many times can you predict it will land on tails? Explain

$100 Answer 13

$200 Question If a couple has 3 children, what’s the chance of them all being girls?

$200 Answer 1/8

$300 Question If a couple has 2 children, what’s the chance of them having a boy and a girl in any order?

$300 Answer 1/2

$400 Question Explain why Mendel performed the same pea plant experiment thousands of times. Why wasn’t 10 or 20 times enough?

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$500 Question If you were to flip 2 coins 500 times each (both at the same time) how many times could you expect them both to land on tails

$500 Answer 125

$100 Question If purple flowers are dominant to white flowers, cross a homozygous purple flower with a homozygous white flower

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$200 Question If blue flowers are dominant to white flowers, cross a heterozygous blue flower with a white flower

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$300 Question If long haired guinea pigs are dominant to short haired guinea pigs, cross two hybrid guinea pigs

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$400 Question • Parent plants: YY and yy • How do we set up the cross? • What are the resulting ratios for genotype and phenotype? Repeat for the F1 generation.

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$500 Question Ttgg x ttGg • Set up a 16 box Punnett Square • Write the possible gametes across the top and side • Fill in the offspring

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