Genetics Review

Genotype refers to the ...

• physical expression of the genes
• the possible combination of alleles in a gene
• whether an allele is dominant or recessive
• how an organism will appear

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An offspring will receive how many alleles from each parent to determine a specific trait?

• one
• two
• three
• five

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• allele

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having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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having two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid).

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

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G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG
• Gg
• gg
• all of the choices result in yellow

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An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

• hidden allele
• dominant allele
• recessive allele
• present allele

What is the genotype for this organism?
(E= 3 eyes, e= 1 eye)

• EE
• Ee
• ee
• EE or Ee

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Tt is-

• homozygous dominant
• homozygous recessive
• heterozygous
• none of these

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