Heredity....who inherits what?

Who is often referred to as the “Father of Genetics?”

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Charles Darwin
• Gregor Mendel
• Rosalind Franklin

Which statement best supports why many offspring look similar to their parents?

• Offspring inherit characteristics from one parent.
• Offspring inherit characteristics from both parents.
• Parents choose which characteristics to pass on to their offspring.
• Parents choose to change their appearance to match that of their offspring.

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Which trait does a puppy inherit from its parents?

• fur color and pattern
• obedience to commands
• food brand preferences
• affection for a specific home

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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

A unit of genetic material that determines a trait

• Carrier
• DNA
• chromosome
• Gene

What is a dominant allele?

• A trait that is always shown (capital letter)
• A trait that can be hidden (lower case letter)
• Alleles that are the same
• Alleles that are different

What is a recessive allele?

• A trait that is always shown (capital letter)
• A trait that can be hidden (lower case letter)
• Alleles that are the same
• Alleles that are different

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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Round face is dominant to oval face. The following genotype will result in which phenotype?
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• round 
• oval 
• square

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