GENETICS QUIZ

What is heredity?

• A kind of genetic disorder

• The way that DNA divides

• A trait you inherit from your parents

• The passing down of traits from parents to children

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This scientist studied pea plants and was considered to be the "Father of Genetics".

• Reginald Punnett

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Rosalind Franklin

Y= yellow pod

y= green pod

What is the percentage of yellow pod when you cross a hybrid pod plant with a purebred green pod plant?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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Which of the following is showing a genotype that would be described as homozygous recessive (purebred)

• Dd

• dd

• DD

• dD

The physical appearance of an organisms is also referred to as:

• genotype

• phenotype

• chromosome

• incomplete dominance

The genotype is:

• the genetic makeup of an organism.

• the physical appearance of an organism.

• the deletion of a chromosome.

• the passing of traits from parent to offspring.

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An allele is:

• different genes that code for different characteristics.

• different chromosomes.

• different forms of the same gene.

• section of the nucleus that forms chromosomes.

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An allele or gene that always shows is

• recessive
• dominant
• hidden
• present

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

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt
• Tt
• Bb
• TT

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