TEST 1 - 1st 9Weeks

Match the following vocabulary words with their definitions

• The total physical appearance for an individual.

• Genetics

• The Scientific study of heredity

• Phenotype

• The specific genetic make up or "code" for an individual.

• Genotype

• An organism's characteristics.

• Trait

• The process in which characteristics are passed down from parents to offspring.

• Heredity

Answer explanation

Remember:

The traits are PASSED down through generations!

That is heredity!

Which best explains why children resemble their parents?

• they eat same foods
• they have similar DNA
• they speak the same language
• they have the same interests

Which term describes the different forms of a gene

• Chromosome

• Allele

• DNA

• Punnett Squares

Gregor Mendel is often called ....

• The father of heredity.
• The father of genetics.
• The king of peas
• The father of punnett squares.

If something is homozygous, it can also be called____

• phenotype

• genotype

• hybrid

• purebred

A type of reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine, producing an offspring 

• Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction

What are some of the facts about asexual reproduction?

• Takes only one mate to reproduce and takes a longer time to reproduce
• Takes a shorter amount of time to reproduce and it takes two mates to reproduce
• Reproduces diverse offspring and takes a longer time to reproduce
• Takes only one mate to reproduce and takes a shorter time to reproduce

When a starfish grows a new body off a broken arm, what kind of reproduction is this?

• Sexual
• Differentiation
• Asexual 
• Specialization

Asexual reproduction creates offspring that are

• genetically identical to the parent

• different from the parent

• different from each other

• formed by 2 parents

Budding, vegetative propagation, regeneration, and binary fission are all types of

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction