Heredity Study Guide

Boy oh boy, I sure hope I get some Valentines!

Gregor Mendel & Heredity Study Guide

by Mr. Colpoys, Mr. Carrison & with the Guidance of Flash

Check out the web links below for some educational sites and one fun link.

• Have you read the chapter?

• How are your notes???
  
• Have you organized your notes?
  
• Did you put the vocab words into your notes?
  
• During the film were you sleeping, snoring, drooling or taking notes? About 90% of the test was covered by the film!

1. Gregor Mendel:
-Where was he from? When did he live?
-What did he do for a career?
-What’s his “claim to fame”?

2. You’ll need to know the difference between dominant and recessive traits.

3. What are some dominant and recessive traits found in humans?

4. Flash begged me to tell you that the answer to #2 is A - this is his Valentines Day present to all his admirers.

5. What’s the deal with chromosomes?

6. How many chromosomes do we have?

7. What about other species?

8. How many chromosomes do we get from mom and dad?

9. Do you know the difference between mitosis and meiosis?

10. The Chromosome Theory:
-Who wrote it?
-What is it?
-What does it mean?

- Can you list the main parts/consepts?

11. You should also remember the parts of a cell.

12. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

13. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

14. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

15. What do you call a change that a species makes in order to survive better and reproduce?

16. How are Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin similar? How are they different?

17. What’s the thing to the right called? What do all the letters and stuff mean?

18. Is your vocab finished?

19. Do you know the Metric System? You should!

20. If you haven’t read the chapter, pgs. 160-167, them you probably won’t do well on this test!

21. How many chromosomes in a human?

22. Did you know - How many chromosomes in a:

Fruit fly 8
House fly 12
Onion 16
Cat 38
Dog 78
Goldfish 94

Does this mean that a GOLDFISH is smarter the Mr. Carrison?

Ted Hut! Anyone know where this was taken?

Reminder: A decision was made to NOT use printed blog study guides on future tests. Please plan accordingly.

Per the request of a pseudo-military offical - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8

Heredity video from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAGr_Mqm28

Neat interactive eye color genetics site http://mistupid.com/science/heredity.htm

For an example as to why Serra should not major in genetics click below! http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b77/angel_of_my_nightmares/Avis_and_signs/OMG.png

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