BIOLOGIX- Alternate Patterns of Inheritance

Answer the questions while watching the movie. The questions are in order.

1. Who worked with pea plants?

2. What is an allele?

3. What are multiple alleles?

4. How do you write the genotype of someone with O type blood?

5. What are two possible genotypes for Type A blood? (Look at the chart in the movie.)

6. Why does blood clump?

7. What is a pedigree chart?

8. What shape represents females in a pedigree chart? Males?

9. In Himalayan rabbits, how many phenotypes (colors) are possible?

10. How does environment change the rabbits’ colors?

11. How does environment affect human genes? (Give some examples.)

12. What is pleiotrophy?

13. What does polygenic mean?

14. Do you think environment or genes affect your personality and look more? Explain your answer. This is your opinion but you must justify your answer.