9.1 Review

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

• Pea Plant
• Pigeons
• Pear trees
• Photosynthesis

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants

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The genotype gives us the code for the ______.

• Visible traits
• Physiotrait
• Genotype 2
• Phenotype

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

• Punnett square
• Venn diagram
• Golden ratio
• Fibonacci sequence

The trait that will appear if this genotype is present. 

• Genotype
• Dominant
• Recessive
• Monotypes

This allele will only show up if the dominant allele is not present. 

• Dominant genotype
• Recessive genotype
• Dominant phenotype
• Recessive phenotype

Gregor Mendel was born in what country

• Austraila
• Austria
• Africa
• Alaska

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring is called

• cross-pollination
• cross-breeding
• heredity
• genetics

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When parents with different traits are bred, a trait that reappears in the second generation after disappearing in the first generation is a

• dominant trait
• recessive trait
• true-breeding trait
• characteristic

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Gregor Mendel is often called _____________. This is due to his experiments with pea plant genetics.

• The Father of Heredity
• The King of Peas
• The Father of Genetics
• The Father of Modern DNA

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