Chapter 10, Lessons 1, 2, 3 Quiz

The scientific study of heredity is called fertilization.

• true

• false

A hybrid organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait.

• true

• false

Capital letters are used to represent recessive alleles.

• true

• false

Mendel called an individual that has one dominant allele and one recessive allele for a trait a purebred.

• true

• false

Mendel said that the factors that control a trait exist in pairs.

• true

• false

Mendel’s experiments showed that the traits of an offspring were a blend of the characteristics of the parents.

• true

• false

Which of these genotypes is heterozygous?

• AA

• Bb

• Cd

• ee

Which of these is NOT a phenotype?

• tall

• short

• homozygous

• round

In a cross between individuals that are Aa x Aa, how many boxes of the Punnett square will show an offspring that is AA?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which of these is NOT a way to express probability?

• 1 in 4

• 50 percent

• 3/4

• 25