Warm Up 8 Honors Genetics

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Dominant alleles are represented by a:

• Male gene
• lowercase letter
• recessive trait
• capital letter

Aa, DD, bB, yy are all examples of

• genotypes
• phenotypes

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following genotypes is heterozygous?

• Bb
• BB
• bb
• B

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following genotypes is homozygous dominant?

• Yy

• yY

• yy

• YY

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following genotypes is homozygous recessive?

• Tt

• tt

• TT

• tT

Who is considered the "father of genetics"?

• Reginald Punnett

• Gregor Mendel

• James Watson

• Charles Darwin

B = brown fur  b = white fur
In the punnett square, what is the probability for white fur? 

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A green pea plant (Gg) is crossed with a yellow pea plant (gg). Describe the genotype of the offspring. (Be sure to remember that the capital letter is dominant).

• 50% heterozygous and 25% homozygous recessive
• 50% heterozygous and 50% homozygous recessive
• 100% homozygous recessive
• 25% heterozygous and 50% homozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

What is the probability of heterozygous offspring?

• 25%
• 50%
• 0%
• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3