Genetics Part 1 quiz

What is genetics?

• The study of heredity

• The study of how animals interact in their environment

• The study of how humans generate new skin

What is heredity?

• The passing of likes and dislikes from parent to offspring

• The passing of traits from parent to offspring

• Acquiring traits by learning or experience

Traits are?

• The characteristics of an organism.

• The smell of an organism

• The sound used to communicate by an organism.

Who was the first scientist to record how traits are passed from parents to offspring?

• Thomas Hunt Morgan

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Nick Jonas

A punnet square shows the different possible combinations of

• alleles

• sperms

• eggs

Rr is considered

• homozygous dominant

• heterozygous

• homozygous recessive

• purebred

A capital letter in a punnet square stands for a

• recessive allele

• dominant allele

Which is homozygous recessive?

• TT

• tt

• Tt

_____________ is the actual genetic makeup.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Karyotype

• Pedigree

The physical expression of a genotype is a/an _________________

• pedigree

• karyotype

• phenotype

• allele