Intro to Genetics

Gametes are also known as

• genes
• sex cells
• alleles
• hybrids

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants

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What is another way of saying "purebred"?

• homozygous
• dominant
• recessive
• heterozygous

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An organism's appearance or other observable characteristics:

• phentoype
• genotype
• recessive
• dominant

Which of the following alleles is homozygous recessive?

• Tt
• tt
• TT
• T

In the punnett square shown, what must the genotype of the missing parent be?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Tt

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 which is heterozygous ?  

• Tt
• TT

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• bb

• Blue eyes

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG
• Gg
• gg
• all of the choices result in yellow

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How many alleles (letters) do each person carry for a trait?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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