DNA and Genetics

Genes are sections of DNA found on your

• Chromosomes

• blood cells

• bones

• DNA

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What kind of a letter do we use to show a DOMINANT trait

• cursive

• lower case

• upper case

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What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype
• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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Based on the missing letter, what is the parent's genotype?

• AA

• Aa

• aa

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What is the missing pairing?

• AA

• Aa

• aa

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Who is the father of genetics?

• George Washington

  Carver

• Robert Hooke

• Gregor Mendel

• Walter Sutton

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What type of traits seem to vanish, but are only hidden?

• Mutated ones

• Recessive

• Ugly ones

• Dominant

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When making a Punnett square, why does each box get 2 letters?

• .   It looks better with 2 letters in each box.

• Offspring receive one allele for each trait from the biological father and the biological mother.

• We need an uppercase and lower case.            

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The different forms of a single gene are known as

• Alleles

• Punnett Squares

• Phenotypes

• chromosomes

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The first people to make models of a DNA molecule were

• Schleiden and Schwann

• Hooke and

  Leuwenhoek

• Einstein and Watson

• Watson and Crick