Genetics review quiz

The passing of traits from parent to offspring 

• Heredity 
• Genetics 
• Hybrid 
• Probability 

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Who was the father of genetics 

• Sagan 
• Issac Newton 
• Gregor Mendel 
• C.jenkins 

 which is heterozygous ?  

• Tt
• TT

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Which is homozygous ?

• Zz
• SS

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the genetic makeup of an organism

• heterozygous
• punnet square
• genotype

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what predicts the outcome

• genetic engineering
• punnet square
• probability

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What is a phenotype?

• The expression of a trait; physical appearance.
• refers to the genetic makeup of an individual
• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (ex. TT or tt)
• the passing of traits from parent to offspring

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What does heterozygous mean?

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (TT or tt)
• An organism that has different genes for a trait (Tt)
• When neither gene is fully dominant; offspring is a mixture of both
• the different forms of a trait (hair color--> brown, blonde, red

An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

• hidden allele
• dominant allele
• recessive allele
• present allele

A human usually has _____ total chromosomes.

• 6
• 22
• 4
• 46

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