Mendel Experimental Design

Mendel Experimental Design

by Roberto Gonzalez

Genes & Gregor Mendel

Mr. Gonzalez

​CHS 9

Multiple Choice

What is the science that studies how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next?

• Mutation

• Zoology

• Genetics

• Ecology

Multiple Choice

Genetic material (DNA) can be found in the...

• nucleus

• mitochondria

• chloroplast

• cell wall

Multiple Choice

Which choice is NOT true about genes?

• They are found in the nucleus.

• They are located on chromosomes.

• They provide energy to the cell.

• They provide genetic information for traits.

Multiple Choice

Segments of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) found in chromosomes that give instructions for producing a certain characteristic.

• heredity

• gene

• allele

• genotype

• phenotype

Multiple Choice

one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color

• allele
• gene
• trait
• DNA

Multiple Choice

You get your genes from:

• Department Store
• Parents
• Aunt
• Neighbor

Multiple Choice

If a child has red hair, they inherited a certain _______________ from their parents.

• ratio
• trait
• probability
• sex chromosome

Multiple Choice

A version or variation of a gene

• trait

• gene

• allele

• DNA

Multiple Choice

an observable characteristic

• trait

• personality

• cell

• DNA

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A segment of DNA that codes for a trait

• gene

• allele

• chromosome

• chromatid

Multiple Choice

When a self-pollinating plant always produces offspring with the same trait as the parent, the parent is _____ for that trait.

• codominant

• heterozygous

• hybrid

• true-breeding

Multiple Choice

The _____ of a flower produces pollen, which fertilizes the egg in the pistil.

• anther

• ovary

• stem

• sepals

Multiple Choice

Sperm cells from pollen fertilize egg cells in the _____ of a flower.

• anther

• nucleus

• pistil

• stamen

Multiple Choice

Mendel used pea plants to study heredity because they _____ quickly.

• cook

• spoil

• evolve

• reproduce

Multiple Choice

To prevent the pea plant from self-pollinating, Mendel...

• Cut the pistil of the flower

• Dusted the stamens of the flower

• Snipped the stamens of the plant

• Cut the sepal of the flower

Multiple Choice

Pollination can occur between flowers of the same plant. 

• True 
• False 

Multiple Choice

Pollination can occur between flowers of the different plants of the same species. 

• True 
• False 

Multiple Choice

_____ is when pollen from one plant reaches the pistil of a flower on a different plant.

• Asexual reproduction

• Cross-pollination

• Self-pollination

• Regeneration

Multiple Choice

The type of pollination that promotes greater genetic diversity in the plant  is ...

• cross-pollination
• self-pollination

Multiple Choice

When a pollen grain moves from the anther of one flower to the stigma on a different flower on the same plant it is considered cross pollination.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

First Filial (child) Generation: the offspring of P₁

• P₁

• F₂

• F₁

• Heterozygous

Multiple Choice

Second Filial Generation: the offspring of F₁

• P₁

• F₁

• F₂

• Homozygous Recessive

Multiple Choice

A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait is called __________________________.

• Gene

• Chromosome

• DNA

• Double Helix

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An alternative form (different version) of a gene is called an ________________________________.

• Trait

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Allele

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They physical appearance of a trait is known as the:

• phenotype

• genotype

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The genetic make-up or specific combination of alleles, such as Aa and AA, is known as:

• phenotype

• genotype

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The genotype of BB and bb are:

• homozygous

• heterozygous

Multiple Choice

The genotype of Bb is known as:

• homozygous

• heterozygous

Multiple Choice

In pea plants, round seeds (R) are dominant to wrinkled seeds (r). Which of the following represents the genotype of a pea plant that is heterozygous?

• RR

• round

• Rr

• wrinkled

• rr

Multiple Choice

In pea plants, round seeds (R) are dominant to wrinkled seeds (r). Which of the following represents the genotype of a pea plant that is homozygous dominant?

• RR

• round

• Rr

• wrinkled

• rr

Multiple Choice

The gene that is expressed. Brown eyes are ___ over blue.

• dominant

• recessive

• homozygous

• heterozygous