Genetics

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters? 

• Capital
• Lowercase

The physical appearance or the way a gene looks is known as it's....

• genotype
• allele
• gene
• phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

The different forms of genes are known as

• environment
• probability
• traits
• alleles

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

An allele or gene that always shows is

• recessive
• dominant
• hidden
• present

Two of the same genes for a trait (sometimes called purebred). BB or bb

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid). Bb

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What would the ratio for genotypes be for this Punnett Square?

• 2Bb:2bb
• 2BB:2Bb
• 1BB:2Bb:1bb
• 4Bb

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

G = dominant green and y = recessive yellow
A fish has a Gy genotype, what will its phenotype be?

• yellow
• green
• greenish-yellow
• red

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt
• Tt
• Bb
• TT

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Dominant alleles are represented by a:

• Male gene
• lowercase letter
• recessive trait
• capital letter