Genetics

The gentleman that conducted the first genetics experiments using pea plants

• Watson

• Crick

• Mendel

• Darwin

What law states that in the combination Tt the person will only show the dominant allele

• Law of segregation

• Law of independent assortment

• Law of dominance

• Law of punnett squares

Genotype refers to the ...

• physical expression of the genes

• the possible combination of alleles

• whether an allele is dominant or recessive

• how an organism will appear

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Squidward has light blue skin, and his genotype for this trait is Bb. Which of the following would describe Squidward?

• Purebred

• Hybrid

• Homozygous

• Sex-linked

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An offspring will receive how many alleles from each parent to determine a specific trait?

• one

• two

• three

• five

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• BB
• Bb
• bb
• Blue eyes

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The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring is known as...

• heredity

• trait

• genetics

• allele

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Having two of the same alleles for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

• homozygous

• hetrozygous

• protein

• chromosome

Maggie is a tall, 11 year old drummer. She has a scar on her right cheek. She is good at swimming. Which of Maggie's traits did she inherit from her parents?

• height

• the scar

• ability to swim

• ability to play drums

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Are recessive traits shown with...

• Capital letters

• Lowercase letters