Genetics/Heredity Quiz

A tool used to show the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross

• Recessive

• Genetics

• Punnett Square

• Phenotype

Two alleles that are the same; also known as purebred

• phenotype

• chromosomes

• homozygous

• heterozygous

Threadlike structures in the nucleus that contain genetic information

• codominance

• chromosomes

• phenotype

• homozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait (ex. hair, color, weight, skin color)

• pedigree

• codominance

• polygenic inheritance

• genotype

More than 2 alleles carry the trait-only 2 inherited (ex. blood type

• pedigree

• alleles

• multiple alleles

• Mendel

A physical characteristic such as height or seed color

• heredity

• hybrid

• trait

• gene

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Another word for hybrid (Tt)

• heterozygous

• phenotype

• heredity

• homozygous

A trait is hidden when the dominant allele is present (represented with a lower-case letter)

• genotype

• genetics

• recessive

• heredity

Scientist who studied genetics with pea plants- Father of Genetics

• trait

• genotype

• Mendel

• gene

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A form of inheritance on which heterozygous genotype is expressed to blend/combine in a phenotype (redxwhite=pink)

• alleles

• Mendel

• multiple alleles

• incomplete dominance