Patterns of Inheritance Quiz 1

In completely dominant traits, is it possible for two recessive parents to have a dominant phenotype offspring?

• Yes

• No

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What is the percentage of homozygous recessive offspring?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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Green peas are dominant (G) to yellow peas (g). What is the genotype for a hetereozygous dominant offspring?

• Gg
• gg
• GG

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In Mendel's pea plants, the homozygous recessive phenotype was white flowers.  If Mendel crossed two homozygous recessive pea plants, what color flowers would be seen in the offspring?

• white and purple
• white 
• purple
• lavendar

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Dominant alleles are represented by a(n)

• phenotype
• lower case letter
• upper case letter
• punnett square 

D = dimples        d = no dimples 
What is the genotype for a homozygous recessive offspring?

• DD
• Dd
• dd

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is the percentage of a homozyogus dominant offspring?

• 75%
• 50%
• 25%
• 0%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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Round (R) seeds are dominant to wrinkled (r) seeds.
What is the genotype for a homozygous dominant offspring?

• RR
• Rr
• rr

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

If two purebred species (BB) are crossed, what percentage of their offspring would be BB?

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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What do you call the physical expression of a gene?

• genotype
• dominant
• phenotype
• allele

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