Heredity and Kingdoms Review

What is a dominant trait?

• A trait that shows up in the offspring.
• A trait that does not show in the organism but gets passed down.

3. What did Gregor Mendel find out from his experiments?

• Pea plants only reproduce sexually
• There must be two sets of instructions for each characteristic
• Pea plants only reproduce asexually

_____is the passing of traits from parents to offspring (babies)

• DNA
• Heredity
• Evolution

What is genetics?

• The study of DNA, traits and inheritance.
• The study of evolution
• The study of fossils

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

• ratio
• trait
• probability
• sex chromosome

He is known as the father of modern day genetics.

• Albert Einstein
• Isaac Newton
• Gregor Mendel
• Daniel Patrick

What is taxonomy?

• The study of DNA
• The study of organizing organisms into different categories
• The study of Genes

What kingdom do these organisms probably belong to?

• Plant
• Protist
• Animal

Humans belong to which kingdom?

• Plant
• Animal
• Protist

How many kingdoms are there?

• 2
• 4
• 6