Practice Law Of Segregation (1.2.3.2) - Basic Biology

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Question 1.
What is an allele?
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Think of pea plants.
Question 2.
What process forms gametes?
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It's a type of cell division.
3Question 3.
What does the Law of Segregation describe?
- Alleles remain together
- Alleles separate during gamete formation
- All alleles are inherited together
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Think about how traits are passed down.
4Question 4.
True or False: All offspring produced from TT and tt crosses will be heterozygous.
- True
- False
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Consider the parent genotypes.
Question 5.
In a cross between two heterozygous pea plants (Tt), calculate the expected genotypic and phenotypic ratios of the offspring.
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Use a Punnett square to help visualize the ratios.
Question 6.
If a plant with a genotype of AaBb is crossed with another plant of the same genotype, what is the ratio of phenotypes for the offspring?
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Consider the principle of independent assortment as well.

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