Heredity

Which of the following have you inherited completely from your parents? Choose the best answer.

• The shape of your blood cells

• Your intelligence

• Your personality

• Your weight

What is heredity?

• The passing of traditions from parents to their children

• A type of asexual reproduction

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Another term for sexual reproduction

What can you conclude about Gregor Mendel from the Brainpop video and our reading?

• Religious authorities forced him to stop his experiments

• He was one of the first researchers to establish how heredity worked

• He concluded that heredity worked for people as well as plants

• He established all the principles of modern genetics

Which term best describes how Mendel conducted his experiments?

• Occasionally

• Carelessly

• Diligently

• Quickly

What did Mendel learn about his pea plants?

• The tall plant trait dominates the short plant trait

• The short plant trait dominates the tall plant trait

• Neither the short nor tall trait is dominant

• Both the short and tall traits are dominant

When two pea plants with Tt genotypes are cross-bred, how many short (tt) plants will there most likely be in the new generation?

• 1 out of 4

• 1 out of 2

• 1 out of 6

• 1 out of 8

The "Tt" in the results of a Punnett square represent

• Tall pea plants

• Female pea plants

• Medium sized pea plants

• Short pea plants

If a brown-eyed mother and a blue-eyed father have four children, three will probably have brown eyes. What can you conclude from this?

• Brown eyes are a successful trait

• Brown eyes are a submissive trait

• Brown eyes are a recessive trait

• Brown eyes are a dominant trait

What can conclude about one of Mendel's short pea plants?

• It had one dominant and one recessive gene

• It had a pair of recessive genes

• It had a pair of dominant genes

• It had no recessive genes

What did Gregor Mendel and Reginald Punnett have in common?

• They were both monks

• They both lived during the 20th century

• They both experimented with pea plants

• They both lived in Germany