Questions and Answers

Use genetic diagrams, including Punnett squares, to predict the results of monohybrid crosses and calculate phenotypic ratios, limited to 1:1 and 3:1 ratios

Understand and use the terms: dominant, recessive, phenotype, genotype, homozygous and heterozygous

Define an allele as an alternative form of a gene

Describe inheritance as the transmission of genetic information from generation to generation

Describe that different sequences of amino acids give different shapes to protein molecules

Describe that the sequence of bases in a gene determines the sequence of amino acids needed to make a specific protein (knowledge of the details of nucleotide structure is not required)

Explain that DNA controls cell function by controlling the production of proteins, including enzymes

Define a gene as a length of DNA that codes for a protein

Investigate and describe examples of continuous and discontinuous variation