Heredity Terms Whitesell/Roberts 2020

When Mendel worked with pea plants, he noticed that some traits like round seeds, seemed to hide other traits, like wrinkled seeds.  What do we call the trait that hides or masks another trait?

• Incomplete dominance
• A dominant trait
• A recessive trait
• DNA replication

Different versions or forms of the same gene are called -

• chromosomes
• sex cells
• nitrogen bases
• alleles

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A unit of genetic material that determines a trait

• Carrier
• DNA
• chromosome
• Gene

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The passing of DNA from parents to offspring

• Generation
• Heredity
• Inheritance
• Traits

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What is genetics?

• The study of DNA nucleotides
• The study of heredity
• The study of a cell dividing into 2
• The study of eye color

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One trait that is ALWAYS present and causes the other traits to disappear is a ________________________

• recessive trait
• aggressive trait
• absent trait
• dominant trait

an organism with the same form of a trait is called a

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• Gregor Mendel

• allele

an organism with a different form of a trait is called a

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• Gregor Mendel

• allele

Which of the following is homozygous recessive?

• Tt
• tt
• TT
• T

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Which of the following is homozygous dominant?

• Yy

• Y

• yy

• YY