Genetics

Mendel concluded that alleles for tall pea plants is dominant. If you cross a TT with a Tt, how many plants would be tall?

• 50%

• 100%

• 25%

• 75%

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The parent flowers could both be described as ____

• homozygous recessive

• homozygous dominant

• heterozygous

• phenotypes

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What advantage do organisms that reproduce sexually have or organisms that reproduce asexually?

• Organisms that reproduce sexually can reproduce faster

• Organisms that reproduce sexually don't need a mate

• Organisms that reproduce sexually have a better chance of survival if the environment changes

• Organisms that reproduce sexually are exactly like their parents.

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Amoebas, hydras, and yeast reproduce asexually so

• offspring is exactly like their parents

• offspring is not like either parent

• offspring take a long time to be born

• offspring will survive if something wipes their parent out

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Two brown eyed parents (Bb) have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

• 0 %
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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Snapdragon flowers come in red, pink and white.  What type of inheritance is this?

• Complete Dominance
• Incomplete Dominance
• Codominance
• Polygenic Inheritance

Two of the same genes for a trait (sometimes called purebred). BB or bb

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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What would the ratio for genotypes be for this Punnett Square?

• 2Bb:2bb
• 2BB:2Bb
• 1BB:2Bb:1bb
• 4Bb

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G = dominant green and y = recessive yellow
A fish has a Gy genotype, what will its phenotype be?

• yellow
• green
• greenish-yellow
• red

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Which is a true statements about this picture?

• Brown is recessive
• Brown is dominant
• Blue is dominant
• Blue is codominant

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