Genetics

B=brown eyes
b= blue eyes
What is true about two brothers that have brown eyes?
One has genotype BB the other Bb.

• they have same phenotype and genotype
• they have different genotypes and phenotypes
• they have same phenotype but different genotypes
• they have same genotype but different phenotypes

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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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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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If T=Tall & t=short, what is the genotypic ratio?

• 1:3
• 3:1
• 1:2:1
• 2:2

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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 corn plant heterozygous for tall sprouts mates with a corn plant with short sprouts. If tall sprouts are dominant, how many different phenotypes are possible in the offspring?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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If a Homozygous red snapdragon and a Heterozygous pink snapdragon were crossed - what percentage of the offspring would be homozygous white?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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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