Heredity notes

Heredity notes

DIRECTIONS: After answering the review questions about reproduction, grab the foldable on my desk to take your notes.

Multiple Choice

Which of the organisms produce the young one asexually ?

• Dog
• mushroom
• Human

Multiple Choice

Sexual reproduction requires _____ parents and asexual reproduction requires ___ parents

• 1,1
• 2,2
• 2,1
• 1,2 

Multiple Choice

In the male reproduction system, the testes produces sperm.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Requires two parents

• sexual
• asexual

Multiple Choice

Which process creates genetically DIFFERENT offspring?

• sexual 
• asexual

Multiple Choice

When the egg and sperm cells unite, this is called...

• Fertilization
• Zygote
• Embryo 
• Cell Differentiation

Multiple Choice

When comparing the offspring of sexually and asexually reproducing organisms, we would expect the genetic material (DNA) of the sexually reproducing organism to -

• contain fewer mutations
• be lesser in quantity
• be simpler overall
• show more variation

Multiple Choice

What are some of the facts about sexual reproduction?

• Takes two mates to reproduce and takes a longer time to reproduce
• Takes one mate to reproduce and takes a shorter amount of time to reproduce
• Takes two mates to reproduce and takes a shorter amount of time to reproduce
• Takes one mate to reproduce and takes a shorter amount of time to reproduce

Multiple Choice

Which type of reproduction produces an identical copy of the parent?

• Sexual reproduction

• Asexual reproduction

Multiple Choice

Which statement does NOT describe asexual reproduction?

• takes a short amount of time

• provides genetic variation - all offspring are different

• no mate required in order to reproduce

• provides no genetic variation - all offspring are the same

Multiple Choice

In what way will a puppy always be like its parents?

• Be the same color
• Learn the same things
• Have the same body structures
• Live in the same places

Multiple Choice

Juan's dog, Luna, was hit by a car. Fortunately, she lived and is healthy! But she is now missing a leg. Having only three legs is a(n)

• inherited trait.

• learned behavior.

• instinct.

• acquired trait.

Multiple Choice

Every living thing has genetic information stored in the form of

• Ribosomes

• DNA

• Chloroplast

• Mitochondria

Multiple Choice

Sections of DNA that have instructions for a specific trait are called _______________

• Blueprints

• Genes

• Heterozygous

• Fragments

Multiple Choice

Traits that are passed from parents to offspring are always

• Recessive

• Inherited

• Dominant

• Heterozygous

Multiple Choice

The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next is known as

• Alleles

• Ancestry

• Heredity

• Variation

Multiple Choice

The genetic difference between individuals in the same species is

• Interesting

• Harmful

• Variation

• Genetics

Multiple Choice

If a gene is always expressed or always shown with a capital letter it is

• Bossy

• Recessive

• Yelling

• Dominant

Multiple Choice

This variation of a gene can only be expressed if it is received from both parents

• Shy

• Heterozygous

• Variation

• Recessive

Multiple Choice

Different versions of the same gene are called

• Jeans

• Editions

• Varieties

• Alleles

Multiple Choice

Characteristics can also be called

• heredity
• traits
• gene 
• alleles

Multiple Choice

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey

• water to rain

• parents to offspring

• offspring to parents