1. Who was Gregor Mendel? What is he known as?
2. What organism did Mendel work with?
3. How did Mendel fertilize the plants that he worked with?
4. List the 7 traits that Mendel worked with.
5. List three reasons why Mendel's choice of plant was ideal.
6. List the four principles that summarize Mendel's conclusions (see pp. 206-207).
7. Define gene locus.
8. Define homozygous dominant.
9. Define heterozygous.
10. Define homozygous recessive.
11. Define genotype.
12. Define phenotype.
13. Define homologous chromosomes.
14. What does a monohybrid cross involve?
15. What is a test cross?
16. What does a dihybrid cross involve?
17. What is a P-1 X P-1 cross?
18. What is an F-1 hybrid?
19. What is an F-1 X F-1 cross?
20. What is an F-2 hybrid?
21. What are autosomes?
22. What kind of chromosomes carry most of the genetic information about an individual?
23. How many autosomes are there in humans?
24. What are sex chromosomes?
25. What is the heterogametic sex?
26. What is the homogametic sex?
27. How exactly is the situation reversed in moths, butterflies, and birds?
28. What are sex-linked genes?
29. Describe the human Y chromosome.
30. Give two examples of sex-linked traits.
31. What is a hemizygous gene?
32. Define incomplete dominance.
33. Define codominance.
34. Define multiple alleles.
35. Give the possible genotype(s) that would code for the following phenotypes:
type A blood
type B blood
type AB blood
type O blood
36. Give the phenotype that would result from the following genotype(s):
AA
AO
BB
BO
AB
OO
37. What is epistasis?
38. What is polygenic inheritance?
39. List 6 examples of polygenic traits.
40. What is pleiotropy?
41. Polygenic traits are characterized by...
42. List 3 examples of pleiotropic traits.
43. Describe the relationship between the environment and an organism's genotype. Give an