Genetics

The Augustinian monk who studied inheritance in pea plants and came up with laws of inheritance was...

• Watson
• Crick
• Mendel
• Darwin

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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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

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

• one
• two
• three
• five

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The passing of traits from parent to offspring 

• Heredity 
• Genome 
• Hybrid 
• Probability 

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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

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

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%

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A purebreeding white flower is crossed with a purebreeding red flower.  The results of the cross are shown in the diagram.  This is an example of...

• complete dominance.
• incomplete dominance.
• co-dominance.
• none of the above.

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Two brown eyed parents who each had a blue-eye parent have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

• 0 %
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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Which process and type of resulting cells are represented?

• mitosis, gametes
• mitosis, body cells
• meiosis, gametes
• meiosis, body cells

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