Heredity

What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring?

• Heredity

• Genetics

Which of the following is the STUDY of the passing of traits from parent to offspring?

• Heredity

• Genetics

Which of the following is an example of a learned/acquired/environmental trait?

• walking

• natural hair color

• natural eye color

• freckles

Which of the following best explains our genetic makeup?

• We get all of our genetic information from our mother

• we get all of our genetic information from our father

• we get half of our genetic information from our mother and half from our father

• we do not get any of our genetic information from either of our parents

what are the structures found in the nucleus of our cells that contain our genetic information called?

• chloroplast

• chlorphyll

• chromosomes

• cellulose

Which of the following is a segment of DNA that codes for a particular trait?

• gene

• allele

• chromosome

• nucleus

Which of the following words describes alternate forms of the same gene?

• gene

• allele

• chromosome

• nucleus

Which of the following is a genotype?

• TT

• brown hair

• blue eyes

• happiness

Which of the following is the physical expression of a gene?

• genotype

• allele

• gene

• phenotype

_______________________letters are used to represent dominant alleles, while ______________________letters are used to represent recessive alleles.

• (T) capital/ (t) lower case

• (t) lower case/ (T) capital