Year 11 - Topic 3: DNA and Inheritance

What is a triplet code?

What is genetic profiling?

How is a genetic profile produced?

What can genetic profiling be used for?

What is a gene?

What is an allele?

What is a chromosome?

In genetics, what is meant by the term dominant?

In genetics, what is meant by the term recessive?

In genetics, what is meant by the term homozygous?

In genetics, what is meant by the term heterozygous?

In genetics, what is meant by the term genotype?

In genetics, what is meant by the term phenotype?

In genetics, what is meant by the term F1/F2?

In genetics, what is meant by the term selfing?

If a tall plant (TT) is crossed with a short plant (tt), what is the percentage chance of a tall plant being produced?

If a person with blue eyes (bb) has child with a person with brown eyes (Bb), what is the percentage chance of having a child with brown eyes?

Tall allele is dominant, short allele is recessive.
If a homozygous recessive plant is crossed with a heterozygous plant, what is the ratio of tall plants to short plants produced?

How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?

On what pair of chromosomes is the sex of the person determined?

What are the alleles for male and female?

What is genetic modification?

What are the advantages of genetic modification?

What are the disadvantages of genetic modification?