Genetics Quick Review

What pattern of inheritance is best shown below?

• Mendelian Genetics

• Incomplete Dominance

• Codominance

• Multiple Alleles

In cats, long hair is recessive to short hair. A true-breeding (homozygous) short-haired male is mated to a long-haired female. What percentage of the offspring has SS genotype?

• 0 %

• 25 %

• 75 %

• 100 %

In cats, long hair is recessive to short hair. A true-breeding (homozygous) short-haired male is mated to a long-haired female. What are the genotypes of the parents?

• SS x ss

• Ss x Ss

• SS x Ss

• ss x ss

How many generations are shown in this pedigree?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The man who studied and came up with genetics is

• Watson

• Crick

• Mendel

• Darwin

In the second generation-how many people have the disease or display the physical trait?

• 2
• 4
• 5
• 6

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

Aa, DD, bB, yy are all examples of

• genotypes
• phenotypes

Which of the following is homozygous dominant?

• Yy
• Y
• yy
• YY

 Which of these would best be described as a phenotype?

• blue eyes
• mutation
• Bb
• Tt