Heredity Quiz 1

Heredity Quiz 1

8th Grade

21 Qs

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Assessment

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Science

8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
HS-LS3-1, MS-LS3-2, HS-LS3-2

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Standards-aligned

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21 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Sections of DNA that have instructions for a specific trait are called _______________

Blueprints

Genes

Heterozygous

Fragments

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Different versions of the same gene are called

Jeans

Editions

Varieties

Alleles

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Traits that are passed from parents to offspring are always

Recessive

Inherited

Dominant

Heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next is known as

Alleles

Ancestry

Heredity

Variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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If a gene is always expressed or always shown with a capital letter it is

Bossy

Recessive

Yelling

Dominant

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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If a certain trait has two different alleles (one dominant and one recessive) it is called __________________

Homozygous

Confused

Differentiated

Heterozygous

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Physical traits that are expressed are known as ____________

Mutation

Personality

Genotype

Phenotype

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