Genetics, DNA,Genes, and Chromosomes

What is genetics?

• recessive genes

• traits

• the study of how living things pass on traits from one generation to another

• experiment

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What is a dominate gene?

• a gene that is strong enough to express itself and be seen

• not strong enough to be seen

• a chromosome that is lost

• DNA of a lizard

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True or False: Each trait that you inherit depend on factors from both your mother and father.

• True

• False

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How many chromosomes do you get from your mother?

• 77

• 52

• 23

• 100

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True or False: To be able to roll your tongue you must have the recessive gene.

• True

• False

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True or False: Brown eye color is considered dominate.

• True

• False

Blue eyes are an example of a recessive alleles - True or False

• True

• False

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All of the ways that your parents' genes can possibly be combined leads to the incredible _____________ in peoples' features.

• paper

• diversities

• swim

• canopy

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What do we call the different forms of the same gene that can be inherited from a mother or father?

• gene

• pineapples

• alleles

• trails

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Characteristics passed on to you from your parents are called ____________.

• bells

• resistance

• traits

• setting

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