This document contains questions and answers related to genetics from the game show Jeopardy. The questions cover topics like Gregor Mendel and his experiments with pea plants, Punnett squares, dominant and recessive traits, genotypes and phenotypes, meiosis, pedigrees, karyotypes, mutations, carriers, probability, sex-linked disorders, sex chromosomes, alleles, and Mendel's discovery that some traits are dominant.

1. Jeopardy The Monk Dominance Punnet Squares Vocabulary Potpourri Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

2. $100 Question from H1 He is known as the “Father of Genetics”

3. $100 Answer from H1 Who is Gregor Mendel

4. $200 Question from H1 This occurs when a plant pollinates a different plant

5. $200 Answer from H1 What is cross-pollination

6. $300 Question from H1 The passing of traits from parent to offspring

7. $300 Answer from H1 What is heredity

8. $400 Question from H1 When a plant fertilizes itself

9. $400 Answer from H1 What is self-pollination

10. $500 Question from H1 An inherited characteristic is also known as

11. $500 Answer from H1 What is a trait

12. $100 Question from H2 When gene pairs are written, The dominant allele has what

13. $100 Answer from H2 What is a captial letter

14. $200 Question from H2 Using the letter “K”, what is The genotype of a heterozygous Individual?

15. $200 Answer from H2 Hetero means different… so Kk

16. $300 Question from H2 When the color orange (O) Is dominant in flowers, the Genotype of green flowers would be

17. $300 Answer from H2

18. $400 Question from H2 When there is incomplete Dominance, what is happening?

19. $400 Answer from H2 Each allele has it’s own degree Of influence. For example: crossing red and white Flowers to get pink

20. $500 Question from H2 What is co-dominance

21. $500 Answer from H2 Both traits are equally expressed For example: a persons blood type (A, B, AB, O) is determined by the Presence of multiple alleles. A person With AB blood exhibits co-dominance

22. $100 Question from H3 What is the percent chance that They will have a homozygous Dominant child T T t T

23. $100 Answer from H3 50%

24. $200 Question from H3 The ability to taste (T) is Dominant to non-tasting (t). Mom Is homozygous for PTC tasting. Dad is a non-taster. What is the percent Chance that they will have a homozygous Recessive child?

25. $200 Answer from H3 0%

26. $300 Question from H3 The allele for pink hair (P) in EMO Kids is dominant to green (p). If two Heterozygous EMO’s were to cross, what Would the phenotypes be and in what quantity.

27. $300 Answer from H3 Three pink and one green

28. $400 Question from H3 This is used to organize possible Offspring combinations

29. $400 Answer from H3 What is a punnet square

30. $500 Question from H3 Using the letter Q, what is the genotype Of a homozygous dominant individual

31. $500 Answer from H3 QQ

32. $100 Question from H4 The process of cell division found Only in sex cells which reduces the Chromosome number to one-half

33. $100 Answer from H4 What is meiosis

34. $200 Question from H4 A trait can be tracked from Generation to generation on a chart called

35. $200 Answer from H4 What is a pedigree

36. $300 Question from H4 An organized profile of a persons chromosomes

37. $300 Answer from H4 What is a karyotype

38. $400 Question from H4 Change in the genetic material

39. $400 Answer from H4 What is a mutation

40. $500 Question from H4 A person that passes on, but Does not themselves show a trait

41. $500 Answer from H4 What is a carrier

42. $100 Question from H5 The mathematical chance that Something will happen. Used quite Often in genetics

43. $100 Answer from H5 What is probability

44. $200 Question from H5 Sex-linked disorders are more common In males than in females. Why?

45. $200 Answer from H5 Males only have one X chromosome Females have two

46. $300 Question from H5 Carries the genes that determine sex

47. $300 Answer from H5 What are sex chromosomes

48. $400 Question from H5 The different forms of a gene that Decide a characteristic (ex: brown or blue) Are known as

49. $400 Answer from H5 What are alleles

50. $500 Question from H5 A picture or map of a chromosome Is called

51. $500 Answer from H5 What is a karyotype

52. Final Jeopardy Mendel called the trait that appeared in ALL of His first-generation plants this

53. Final Jeopardy Answer What is a dominant trait