It's been a while since we had a daily questions but here they were!!
Homologous Chromosomes each have different forms of a gene on them (one from your mom and one from your dad) These different "forms" are known as Alleles.
These can be either dominant or recessive. Those that are recessive are "Hidden" (Not expressed) if a dominant allele is present.
The two alleles an organism has for a specific trait is known as its Genotype (such as HH or Hh or hh). The actual characteristic that is has (the PHYsical appearance) is known as its PHENOtype
After that we reviewed our notes about Mendel, his experiments and moved in to how alleles are expressed and STARTED to predict genotypes based on phenotypes. For MOST classes we began the "class work quiz" but will finish that up on Monday at the start of the period. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure that you are where you need to be with this stuff. I have had a LOT of you "zoning" lately!
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