Genetics Natural Selection ugiSpeciation Mendel Terminology
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What is parents to offspring?
Heredity is transmission of characteristics from _____ to _______.
100
What is Hardy-Weenberg?
When frequiencies of alleles and genotypes in a population do not change.
100
What is speciation?
This occurs when the net affects of evolutionary forces result in a population with unique features.
100
What is the father of genetics?
This is the nick name given to Gregor Mendel.
100
What is beneficial gene?
This is a gene that confirms and is advatageous to survival and increases in frequency.
200
What is trait?
____ is a genetically determinded variant of a characteristic.
200
What is genetic bottle neck?
This is the number of individuals in a population greatly decreases due to catastrophic event.
200
What is biological species concept?
A group of natural populations that interbred.
200
What is meiosis?
This is the law of segregation that a member of a pair of alleles seperate.
200
What is cloned gene?
This is a DNA molecule with the gene of interest.
300
What is mutation?
The major source of new alleles in natural population.
300
What is natural selection?
An indirect force from the enviorment that acts on a phenotype.
300
What is reproductive isolation?
This occurs when two populations can no longer interbreed to produce offspring.
300
What is the Law of Independent assortment?
This is a dihybrid cross that demonstrates mendelian principal.
300
What is deletion?
This is an abnormality in which a part of a chromosome is lost.
400
What is polygene?
Characters that are influenced by several genes.
400
What is stabilizing selection?
This is when selection eliminates individuals that have alleles for any extreme type.
400
What is subspecies?
This occurs when a population is diversing in a detectable way.
400
What is monk?
Mendel recieved education in St. Thomas and later became a _____.
400
What is gamete?
This is a reproductive cell that contains a number of 23 haploid cells.
500
What is gene pool?
This is made up of a particular combination of alleles in a population.
500
What is dirrectional selection?
An example of this pattern is pesticide resistance in insects.
500
What is reproductive isolation?
This occurs when a physical barrier interfers with mating.
500
What is "Experiments on Plant Hybridization"?
This is the title of Mendels essay which he first published.
500
What is pedigree
This is a diagram representing a family tree.






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