Heredity is....

• The passing of traits from parent to offspring

• What I get from grandpa when he goes back to King Kai

• A hidden trait

• The strongest trait

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A dominant trait is....

• A trait that always comes out

• A trait that is always hidden

• A mutation

• An angry gene

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A recessive trait is

• A trait that always hides from the dominant trait

• A trait that always beats the dominant trait

• A trait that only happens in mom's side of the family

• None of these

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Gerry and his wife both have blue eyes, which is a recessive trait. Which is true about their baby?

• He's adopted

• The baby will not inherit their traits

• The baby will be blue eyed

• The baby will have brown hair

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A flower garden has 300 flowers, and 250 of them are purple flowers, and the other 50 are white flowers. Which of the following is true?

• He doesn't have enough pollen spreaders

• The purple flowers are dominant

• The white flowers will eventually overpower the purple

• He is using a soil that helps boost his plant growth rate

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Gregor Mendel cross different flowers to study how.....

• traits were being passed on

• flowers grew from seeds

• a sickness in plants was spreading

• none of these

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genetics is the study of

• animal genes

• how blue-eyed babies are born

• family characteristics

• how traits are passed on

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True or false: A recessive trait is a trait that comes out very often in large families

• True

• False

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True or false: You inherit 75% of your genes from mom, 25% from dad

• True

• False

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We use letters to describe genes: Blue Eyes = (bb)

These letters are called:

• Heredity

• Alleles

• Dominant Genes