Heredity Science Olympiad 2019

What are the discrete factors that individual traits are determined by? 

• Genes
• Mendel
• Chromatids

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is an allele?

• A gene that Mutates and takes two or more alternative forms
• a stretch of a DNA that determines a particular trait

What is a phenotype?

• A set of genes
• an organism
• A set of observable characteristics

What is a genotype?

•  description of your actual physical characteristics
• The set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait.
• A set of observable characteristics

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is the study of heredity and variations known as?

• ecology

• inheritance

• genetics

• physiology

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What are small stretches of DNA that code for traits

• Nucleus
• Chromosomes
• Gene
• Centromeres

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What is organized DNA

• Nucleus
• Chromosomes
• Gene
• Centromeres

Where is all the genetic information in a cell?

• Nucleus
• Nucleotides
• Chromosomes
• Cytoplasm

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is a cell without a nucleus called?

• Prokaryote
• Eukaryote
• Heterotroph
• Dead

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A