Genetics Overview

Question 1

3 Differences between sexual and asexual reproduction

Answer 1

• sexual=2 parents, asexual=1 parent
• sexual=genetically different, asexual=genetically identical
• sexual=occurs in sex cells, asexual=occurs in somatic (body) cells

Question 2

What are multiple alleles?

Answer 2

Genes with more than two alleles.

Question 3

What is Independent Assortment and when does it occur?

Answer 3

When chromosomes line up along the centre of cell and split up randomly. Occurs in metaphase1 of meiosis.