Update - Dec. 16. - Genetics Exam - Study!

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>> GENETICS FINAL ASSESSMENT -- TUESDAY in class

This is an important exam based on our standards and learning targets. Please make sure your child is studying:

JOURNALS/ NOTES

CLASSWORK

CHAPTER 6 & 7 IN BOOKS

These concepts and terms:

*******FINAL EXAM FOR GENETICS **NEXT TUESDAY, DEC. 20th**

Have your child study all notes, work, and chapter 6 & 7, and the standards and terms BELOW:

• I know sexual reproduction requires two sets of DNA.

• I know that sex cells are formed through the process of meiosis.

• I know that sexual reproduction produces offspring with half their genes from each parent.

• I know that each plant or animal cell has many thousands of different genes.

 • I know that there are typically two of each type of gene called alleles.

• I know that the two alleles may not be identical.

• I know that a phenotype is an organism’s appearance.

 • If the alleles are not identical one may be dominant and will be the trait that develops.

• The other may be recessive and the trait will not develop.

 •I know that each cell contains DNA.

• I know that DNA determines what traits are passed on from generation to generation.

• I know that DNA is contained in the genes.

• I know that the genes are part of the chromosomes of each cell.

• I know that the chromosomes are chains of genes in the nucleus.

TERMS TO KNOW!

Sexual reproduction            DNA                        chromosomes           

Sex cells                                    Meiosis

Genes                                    Alleles            traits

Phenotype                                    genotype

Dominant                                    recessive

Punnet Square                        Probability

Inheritance                        heredity