1. Does a plant cell contain genes?
2. Can you define what comprises a chromosome?
3. Explain the difference between a body cell and a sex cell?
4. What is the sex of a pigeon with one unpaired chromosome?
5. Why are sex cells called half-cells?
6. Explain the difference between a wildtype gene and a mutation?
7. What is an allele?
8. Explain a barred offspring from two checked parents?
9. Explain why this genotype,  "b+//b+, belongs to a brown male pigeon?
10. Describe "wildtype"?
11. What determines if a gene is recessive?
12. How do gene symbols reflect if they are dominant; recessive?
13. Make a distinction between "genotype" and "phenotype"?
14. Define "homozygous"; "heterozygous"; and "hemizygous"?
15. A blue cock x ash-red hen will produce all ash-red sons.  Why?

 

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