Unit 4: Genetics Test Review

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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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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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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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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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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This is an example of what?

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

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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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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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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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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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which best describes the process shown?

• mutation in which the DNA content of the gene is ltered
• segregation of sister chromatids
• condensation and segregation of the alleles
• crossing-over which alleles are exchanged

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

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

• codominance
• incomplete dominance
• multiple alleles
• linked genes

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

An organism's appearance is known as its

• heredity
• phenotype
• genotype
• pedigree

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Sex cells are produced through the process of

• mitosis
• cytokinesis
• binary fission
• meiosis

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