Genetics and Heredity Review Sheet

What organism did Gregor Mendel study?

• Cats

• Mountains

• House fly

• Garden pea plants

What do you call the concept of passing traits from parents to offspring?

• Heredity

• Cancer

• Cardiology

• Optics

The man who studied genetics and came up with genetics is

• Watson
• Crick
• Mendel
• Darwin

Genotype refers to the ...

• physical expression of the genes
• the possible combination of alleles in a gene
• whether an allele is dominant or recessive
• how an organism will appear

An offspring will receive how many alleles from each parent to determine a specific trait?

• one
• two
• three
• five

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

What is a phenotype

• The genetic make up (code)
• The physical trait

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• allele

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

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype