Genetics

Which of these is an inherited trait for humans?

• knowing how to read
• speaking English
• being able to play the violin
• having two arms 

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Which sentence is TRUE?

• Acquired traits are passed from parents to offspring
• Inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring
• Behaviors are never inherited
• Behaviors are always inherited 

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Which of the following is a definition of inherited trait?

• a characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents
• a characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime
• a behavior that a living thing learns from its parents
• a skill that an animal develops after it is born 

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In a population of cardinals, all the birds have short beaks. Their short beaks are an example of

• a learned behavior 
• an inherited trait
• an acquired trait
• an inherited behavior 

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What is a phenotype?

• The expression of a trait; what you see.
• 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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The inherited combination of alleles is known as the offspring's

• heredity
• phenotype
• genotype
• redigree

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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

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A heterozygous yellow pea plant's genotype would be:

• YY
• yy
• Yy
• Yg

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Pea plants can have green or yellow seeds. In a pea plant that is heterozygous for seed color, the allele for yellow seeds masks the effects of the allele of green seeds. Which of the following terms best describes the allele for yellow seeds?

• codominant
• recessive
• dominant
• sex-linked

What type of "square" helps us solve genetic problems?

• carpenter square
• Mendel square
• Punnett square
• genetic square

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