A piece of DNA that determines a trait

Tightly bundled DNA ready for cell division

A physical characteristic inherited from your parents

One of the possible forms or types of a gene

The form of a gene that is always expressed

The combination of 2 genes for a specific trait

The form of a gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

A white bull and brown cow may have an offspring with white and brown fur. This is

1 gene influencing many traits.

SpongeBob inherited an allele to be yellow from his father. He also inherited an allele to be blue from his mother. Which of the following must be true?

Both alleles are equally dominant

SpongeBob inherited an allele to be yellow from his father. He also inherited an allele to be blue from his mother. Which of the following must be true?

SpongeBob is heterozygous for body color

SpongeBob is homozygous for body color

SpongeBob only has yellow alleles for body color

SpongeBob only has blue alleles for body color

SpongeBob inherited an allele to be yellow from his father. He also inherited an allele to be blue from his mother. Which of the following must be true?

Both alleles are equally dominant

Billy Bob is heterozygous for handedness. What does this mean?

He has 1 left hand gene and 1 right hand gene

He has an extra gene for handedness

Which is true about a dominant gene?

It's represented with a capital letter

It can cover up and hide a recessive gene

It is usually expressed in one's phenotype

Mendel bred plants that had green pods with plants that had yellow pods. All of the offspring had green pods. How did this happen?

The yellow pod gene is recessive and was hidden

The green pod gene is recessive and was hidden

The yellow pod gene is dominant and was expressed

Yellow and green pods are equally dominant.

When is a recessive allele shown in someone's phenotype?

When they have 2 copies of the recessive allele

When they have 1 recessive and 1 dominant allele

When they have 2 copies of the dominant allele

Recessive traits never appear in someone's phenotype

Genetics Vocabulary

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is genetics?

The study of how traits are passed to offspring

The study of living things

The study of diseases

The study of the human body

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who developed genetic ideas using experiments with pea plants?

Albert Einstein

Gregor Mendel

Charles Darwin

Robert Hooke

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of gene is represented by a capital letter?

Expressive

Repressive

Dominant

Recessive

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of gene is represented by a lowercase letter?

Expressive

Repressive

Dominant

Recessive

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An organism with 2 of the same alleles for a trait is said to be

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Heterowhatsis

Hybrid

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An organism with 2 different alleles for a trait is said to be

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Heterowhatsis

Purebred

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is true?

A gene is made of many chromosomes.

Genes and chromosomes are the same.

A chromosome is made of many genes.

Chromosomes are only inherited from the female parent.

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Genetics Vocabulary

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Who developed genetic ideas using experiments with pea plants?

What type of gene is represented by a capital letter?

What type of gene is represented by a lowercase letter?

An organism with 2 of the same alleles for a trait is said to be

An organism with 2 different alleles for a trait is said to be

Which of the following is true?

What is a gene?

Which of the following is NOT an inherited trait?

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