Mendelian Genetics

The passing of traits from parent to offspring 

• Heredity 
• Genetics 
• Hybrid 
• Probability 

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Who was the father of genetics 

• Sagan 
• Issac Newton 
• Gregor Mendel 
• C.jenkins 

the genetic makeup of an organism; inherited alleles

• heterozygous

• punnet square

• genotype

• phenotype

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Bb

• heterozygous

• codominant

• Blue eyes

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

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

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B=brown and b=blue.

Two brown eyed heterozygous parents have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

• 0 %

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

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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 it is not masked by another factor

• hidden allele

• dominant allele

• recessive allele

• present allele

T=tall & t=short

Two heterozygous tall pea plants are crossed. Which describes the probability of their offspring?

• 50% tall and 50% short

• 75%tall and 25% short

• 100%short

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