Mendelian Genetics

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants

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What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

• Pea Plant
• Pigeons
• Pear trees
• Photosynthesis

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What do we call the result of the genotype (for example, the color of the peas)?

• Visible traits
• Physiotrait
• Genotype 2
• Phenotype

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

• Punnett square
• Venn diagram
• Golden ratio
• Fibonacci sequence

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Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

• Modern Medicine
• Father of the Green Revolution
• Father of Genitics
• The Pea Plant Man

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Which of the following is homozygous dominant?

• RR

• Rr

• rr

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Which of the following would produce a recessive phenotype?

• hh

• Rr

• Ww

• BB

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Which of the following laws claims that alleles will separate during meiosis, one going to half the sex cells, the other allele going to the other half.

• Law of Domination

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Speciation

• Law of Genetics

If Y (yellow) is the dominant allele for pea plant seed color, which of the following would produce green seeds?

• yy

• Yy

• YY

• gg

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Which of the following laws claims that alleles will come together independently of each other in the offspring?

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Probable Expression

• Law of Typical Collection

• Law of Assorted Assignment