Heredity & Genetics Quiz Review

Passing on traits from parents to offspring

• Chromosome

• Genotype

• Heredity

• Allele

The study of heredity

• Genetics

• Genome

• Allele

• Punnett Square

A genotype where only dominant alleles were passed on

from both parents for one trait

BB AA TT LL

• Homozygous Recessive

• Homozygous Dominant

• Dihybrid

• Heredity

A genotype where only recessive alleles

were passed on from both parents for one trait

bb aa tt ll

• Heredity

• Homozygous Dominant

• Homozygous Recessive

• Phenotype

A genotype where one dominant and one recessive allele was passed on from both parents for one trait.

Bb Aa Tt Ll

• Allele

• Homozygous Dominant

• Homozygous Recessive

• Heterozygous

The observable traits dictated by the genotype

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Homozygous Recessive

• Homozygous Dominant

The monk/scientist who first showed

the principles of genetics

• Watson and Crick

• Linnaeus

• Darwin

• Mendel

Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study...

• flowering

• gamete formation

• the inheritance of traits

• cloning

The “factors” that are passed from parent to offspring and determine traits are called...

• genes

• characteristics

• traits

• alleles

Gregor Mendel concluded that traits are...

• not inherited by offspring

• passed from the parents to the offspring

• determined by dominant factors only

• determined by recessive factors only.