GAP #1

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Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters? 

• Capital
• Lowercase

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The physical appearance or the way a gene looks is known as it's....

• genotype
• allele
• gene
• phenotype

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The mathematical chance that something will happen is known as...

• chance
• luck
• probability

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The different forms of genes are known as

• environment
• probability
• traits
• alleles

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An allele or gene that always shows is

• recessive
• dominant
• hidden
• present

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Two of the same genes for a trait (sometimes called purebred). BB or bb

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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Two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid). Bb

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

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What would the ratio for genotypes be for this Punnett Square?

• 2Bb:2bb
• 2BB:2Bb
• 1BB:2Bb:1bb
• 4Bb

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G = dominant green and y = recessive yellow
A fish has a Gy genotype, what will its phenotype be?

• yellow
• green
• greenish-yellow
• red

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T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt
• Tt
• Bb
• TT

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Dominant alleles are represented by a:

• Male gene
• lowercase letter
• recessive trait
• capital letter

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A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid
• Genetic Tic Tac Toe
• Punnett Square
• Pedigree Plot

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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___________________________ is the field of science that studies of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

• dominant traits
• ratio
• phenotype
• genetics

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He is known as the father of modern day genetics.

• Gregory Mendel
• Greg Mendel
• Gregor Mendel
• Grace Mendel

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Which is a true statements about this picture?

• Brown is recessive
• Brown is dominant
• Blue is dominant
• Blue is codominant

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What are the possible phenotypes in this punnett square?

• Bb, bb, BB
• purple, white
• Bb, bb
• light purple

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What is a gene?

• An entire chromosome that  codes for a trait
• a piece of clothing
• a piece of a DNA on chromosome that codes for a trait
• Chemical messengers in your brain that code for a trait

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What is a genotype? 

• The genetic make up (code)
• The physical trait

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Tall is dominant to short. What is the phenotype of this organism?
Tt

• tall
• short