Review: Mendelian Genetics

What is the percentage of homozygous recessive offspring?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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Green peas are dominant (G) to yellow peas (g). What is the genotype for a hetereozygous dominant offspring?

• Gg
• gg
• GG

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What percentage of the offspring will be purebred dominant?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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D = dimples        d = no dimples 
What is the genotype for a homozygous recessive offspring?

• DD
• Dd
• dd

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If two purebred species (BB) are crossed, what percentage of their offspring would be BB?

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%

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What do you call the physical expression of a gene?

• genotype
• dominant
• phenotype
• allele

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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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During meiosis and gamete formation, homologous (paired up) alleles split up

• Phenotype

• Law of Segregation

• Genotype

• Dihybrid Cross

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During meiosis, the homologous pairs of chromosomes and the matching alleles are lined up independently.

Offspring are a mix of maternal genes and paternal genes.

This increases genetic variation.

• Homozygous Dominant

• Law of Segregation

• Crossing Over

• Independent Assortment

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The ratio of homozygous dominant to heterozygous

to homozygous recessive offspring

• Genotypic Ratio

• Phenotypic Ratio

• Monohybrid Cross

• Homologous Pair

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