Genetics and Heredity Unit Test Review

The passing of genes from parent to offspring is known as ____.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

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Which term describes the genes an organism actually has and is not always obvious in appearance?

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Recessive

• Dominant

This scientist discovered that there are patterns to inheritance. He did this by studying pea plants while living at a monastery.

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Roselyn Franklin

• Sir Issac Newton

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An organism’s ___________ describes the physical characteristics or traits that can be observed.

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Recessive

• Dominant

This is the process of selecting and breeding parent organisms to pass on particular traits to offspring.

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Heredity

• Genetics

Which process describes how cells make more cells, to help you grow, develop, or heal. In other words, One cell makes two cells.

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Diffusion

• Osmosis

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Alleles that have the same form of the same gene [two capital or two lower case letters]

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

Most unicellular organisms and a few multicellular organisms produce genetically identical offspring in a process called

• Sexual Reproduction

• Asexual Reproduction

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

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21. Which type of reproduction requires two different parent cells (male and female reproductive cells) to combine to form offspring with genetic material from both cells?

• Asexual

• Sexual

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

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A _________ allele is one that is expressed in the phenotype even if only one copy is present in the genotype [represented by a Capital Letter]

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Recessive

• Dominant