Genes Alleles and Traits

What is Gregor Mendel's nickname?

• The Priest of Peas

• The Father of Genetics

• The Dad of DNA

• The Grandfather of Genes

What is the definition of Genotype?

• The diagram that shows all the chromosomes of an individual

• The combination of alleles that control that an individual has for a particular trait

• How many genes on one chromosome

• How a trait is expressed (what it looks like or what it does)

Hair color and eye color are examples of a person's....

• recessive traits

• dominant alleles

• genotype

• phenotype

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is known as....

• hierarchy

• heredity

• traits

• genetics

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A segment of DNA that codes for a trait

• gene

• centromere

• chromosome

• chromatid

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an observable characteristic

• trait

• personality

• cell

• DNA

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Genetic traits are determined by one or more

• genes

• organelles

• random chances

• cells

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A version or variation of a gene

• trait

• gene

• allele

• DNA

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The alleles that an organism has/inherits are its

• genotype

• phenotype

• chromosome

• recessive

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The observable expression of a trait is its

• phenotype

• genotype

• chromosome

• allele

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