Genetics

A dog gives birth to 5 puppies. What percentage of the chromosomes does each puppy share with the mother?

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%

What does heterozygous mean?

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (TT or tt)
• An organism that has different genes for a trait (Tt)
• When neither gene is fully dominant; offspring is a mixture of both
• the different forms of a trait (hair color--> brown, blonde, red

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If a heterozygous tall pea plant is crossed with a short pea plant, what are the possible genotypes of the future offspring?

• 100% Tt
• 50% Tt, 50% tt
• 75%Tt, 25%tt
• 25%TT, 50%Tt, 25%tt

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This is an example of what?

• Complete dominance
• Incomplete dominance
• Codominance
• None of the above

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Two brown eyed parents (Bb) have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

• 0 %
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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A heterozygous yellow pea plant's genotype would be:

• YY
• yy
• Yy
• Yg

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Snapdragon flowers come in red, pink and white.  What type of inheritance is this?

• Complete Dominance
• Incomplete Dominance
• Codominance
• Polygenic Inheritance

Incomplete dominance means that the traits are

• expressed equally
• dominant
• recessive
• blended

Term for homozygous organisms that display two dominant phenotypes at the same time

• codominance
• incomplete dominance
• multiple alleles
• linked genes

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Red/green color blindness is a recessive trait.  A woman who is a carrier for this allele marries a normal-vision male.  What is the probability that they will have a child who is color blind?

• 1/4
• 1/2
• 3/4
• 1

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