Heredity/Genetics

What is the scientific study of heredity?

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Allele

What is the passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next?

• Genetics

• DNA

• Heredity

• Nucleus

What is a segment of DNA found on a chromosome; determines the inheritance of a particular trait?

• Gene

• Allele

• Heredity

• DNA

What is the different possibilities for a given trait?

• Gene

• Allele

• Heredity

• Nucleus

What is a trait that will only exhibit when the dominant allele is not present.

• DNA

• Dominant

• Recessive

Gregor Mendel studied heredity using _______ plants

• rose

• pea

• berry

• corn

____________ used plants to study the way traits are passed from parent to offspring

• Mendel

• Punnett

• Sutton

The organism's appearance is known as its

• heredity

• pedigree

• phenotype

• genotype

Who is the Father of Genetics?

• Darwin

• Punnett

• Mendel

_____________ describes a trait that covers over, or masks another form of that trait.

• recessive

• gene

• allele

• dominant