Reproduction and Heredity Vocabulary Pre-Quiz

What type of reproduction does not involve the union of sex cells and produces offspring genetically identical to the parent?

• Sexual reproduction

• Asexual reproduction

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What type of reproduction involves sex cells from two parents that unite and produce offspring that share traits from both parents?

• Sexual reproduction

• Asexual reproduction

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An allele is a molecule that is present in all living cells and that contains the information that determines the traits a living thing inherits and needs to live.

• True

• False

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A gene is one set of instructions for an inherited trait.

• True

• False

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In a eukaryotic cell, one of the structures in the nucleus that are made up of DNA and protein; in a prokaryotic cell, the main ring of DNA.

• trait

• gene

• allele

• chromosomes

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Relating to genes or heredity.

• DNA

• inheritance

• genetic

• sexual reproduction

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Genetically determined forms of a characteristic that can be expressed in a population.

• allele

• trait

• gene

• genotype

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One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color.

• gene

• trait

• allele

• phenotype

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The entire genetic make-up of an organism; also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits.

• genotype

• phenotype

• recessive allele

• dominant allele

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One of the alternative forms of a gene that will be masked, unless the organism is homozygous for that trait.

• genotype

• phenotype

• recessive allele

• dominant allele