Mendelian Genetics #1

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

• Pea Plant
• Pigeons
• Pear trees
• Photosynthesis

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants

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What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

• Punnett square
• Venn diagram
• Golden ratio
• Fibonacci sequence

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Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

• Modern Medicine
• Father of the Green Revolution
• Father of Genitics
• The Pea Plant Man

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Gregor Mendel was born in what country

• Austraila
• Austria
• Africa
• Alaska

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters? 

• Capital
• Lowercase

The different forms of genes are known as

• environment
• probability
• traits
• alleles

Two of the same genes for a trait (sometimes called purebred). BB or bb

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

Two different genes for a trait (sometimes called hybrid). Bb

• protein
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• genotype

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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