Hereditary Vocabulary

The different forms of a gene that determine a characteristic are known as

• alleles
• albinism
• phenotype
• genes

What is a phenotype?

• the way an organism feels
• a dominant gene
• a group of 5 alleles
• the way an organism looks

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What do we use pedigrees for?

• To look at families
• To make determinations about the offspring
• To track traits in families
• Nothing

Heterozygous is when...

• the alleles are the same
• the alleles are different
• the alleles are absent
• the alleles are present

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Which of the following genotypes is heterozygous?

• Bb
• BB
• bb
• B

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG
• Gg
• gg
• all of the choices result in yellow

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Which of the following alleles is homozygous (purebred) recessive?

• Tt
• tt
• TT
• t

Aa, DD, bB, yy are all examples of

• genotypes
• phenotypes

Which of the following genotypes is homozygous dominant?

• A
• Aa
• AA
• aa

In a flowering plant species, red flower color (R) is dominant over white flower color (r). What is the genotype of any red-flowering plant resulting from this species?

• rr
• R
• RR
• RR or Rr

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