Genetics

Who is considered the "father" of modern genetics?

• Einstein

• Mendel

• Disney

• Washington

TT,tt,PP,pp,SS,ss are examples of alleles that are?

• homozygous
• heterozygous
• different
• homologous 

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Y for yellow body is dominant over y for blue body.  What alleles would produce yellow bodies?

• YY,yy
• Yy,yy
• YY only
• YY,Yy

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"The Great White Shark was 20 feet in length.  Phenotype or Genotype?

• phenotype
• genotype

Females-XX; MalesXY.  A couple has 4 girls.  What is the chance the next child will be a boy?

• 75%
• 100%
• 25%
• 50%

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If "T" is the allele for tall and "t" is the allele for short, then Tt would produce?

• tall
• short
• medium
• not enough info

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Dd letters are an example of....

• heterozygous genes
• homozygous genes
• dominant genes
• recessive genes

DD is an example of

• homozygous recessive
• dominant
• Homozygous dominant
• recessive

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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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having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

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