Cells, Mitosis/Meiosis, Patterns of Inheritance

What is the basic unit of all living things?

• Cells

• Organelles

• Tissues

• The sun

The following picture represents what pattern of inheritance?

• Complete dominance
• Incomplete dominance
• Co-dominance
• Sex-linked inheritance

The following picture represents what pattern of inheritance?

• Complete dominance
• Incomplete dominance
• Co-dominance
• Multiple Alleles

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

• Yes

• No

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

• Yes if they are both heterozygous

• No

• Not sure

• Yes if they are both homozygous dominant

A form of cell division that halves the number of chromosomes when forming reproductive cells

• sister chromatids
• mitosis
• meiosis
• budding

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Characteristics that are inherited from the offspring's parents are called...

• alleles

• homologous chromosomes

• traits

• purebred

the study of inheritance patterns and variation in organisms

• biology
• genetics
• statistics
• chemistry

When organisms only donate one copy of a gene to their gametes, it is called

• law of segregation

• law of independent assortment

• crossing over

• meiosis

The physical appearance of a trait or characteristic

• genotype
• phenotype
• genetic code
• RNA