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    Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Block: __________

    Use the videos below to find the answers to the following questions. You should watch the entire video.
    Know that the questions are written in the order that they will be discussed through the video.

    DNA, Chromosomes, Genes, and Traits: An Intro to Heredity


    https://youtu.be/8m6hHRlKwxY

    1. What is heredity? The transmission of traits from one


    generation to the next

    2. What are the traits of Spike? 1. His size


    2. Body size

    3. Where are Spikes traits coded? In his Nuclei

    4. Where is the DNA located? In the cell nucleus

    5. What does Asexual Reproduction mean? Is a reproduction when a new offspring is


    born by a single parent

    6. What are some things that DNA determines in your 1. Height


    body? 2. eye color
    3. Hair color
    4. Risk of certain Diseases

    7. What is the shape of DNA? Double helix

    8. What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide? 1. Sugar


    2. Nitrogenous base
    3. Phosphate group

    9. What part of the nucleotide codes for your traits? Nitrogenous base

    10. What are the 4 types of bases? 1. Adenine


    2. Thymine
    3. Gytosine
    4. Guanine

    11. What is a chromosome? Structure made up of DNA

    12. How many chromosomes do humans have? 46

    13. How many chromosomes do you receive from your 23 mom side 23 dad side

    Brower Power Science


    Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Block: __________
    mother and your father?

    Monohybrids and Punnett Square Guinea Pigs


    https://youtu.be/i-0rSv6oxSY

    1. What is an allele? Form of a gene

    2. What is a recessive allele represented by? Lowercase letter

    3. What does recessive mean? That the allele will not usually show up

    4. What is a dominant allele represented by? Uppercase Letter

    5. What does dominant mean? An allele that will show up

    6. What is a genotype? The genetic make up of an organism

    7. How would you represent a guinea pig with no hair? hh

    8. How would you represent a guinea pig with hair (2 HH and Hh


    ways)

    9. What does homozygous mean? same

    10. What does heterozygous mean? different

    11. What is a monohybrid cross? One trait to rule them all

    12. What is a phenotype? Physical traits of the organism

    Punnett Squares and Sex-linked Traits


    https://youtu.be/h2xufrHWG3E

    Brower Power Science


    Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Block: __________
    1. What are platelets? tiny components of your blood that help
    with clotting

    2. What is Hemophilia?  an inherited bleeding disorder

    3. What are sex-linked traits? associated with genes found on sex


    chromosomes

    4. How many of your 46 chromosomes are sex 22


    chromosomes?

    5. What are these chromosomes called? Sex chromosome

    6. What do XX chromosomes represent, what about XY? biologically female individuals


     determine the biological sex of an
    individual

    7. Are most sex-linked traits on the X chromosome or the X chromosome


    Y chromosome?

    8. What is the genotype ratio for the cross they do in the 121
    video?

    9. What is the phenotype percentages for the cross in the Y=75%


    video? X=25%

    10. Why are males more likely to inherit this disorder? A single recessive gene on that X
    chromosome will cause the disease

    11. What is another sex-linked recessive disorder that Hemophilia A


    affects males more then females?

    Brower Power Science

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