Genetics and Heredity Quiz

What is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring called?

• genetics

• heredity

• inheritance

• evolution

Who is considered the father of modern genetics?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

What is the term for the different forms of a gene?

• proteins

• enzymes

• chromosomes

• alleles

What is the term for the physical characteristics of an organism?

• DNA

• chromosome

• genotype

• phenotype

What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?

• allele

• genotype

• chromosome

• phenotype

What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism for a particular trait?

• phenotype

• allele

• chromosome

• genotype

What is the term for the observable traits of an organism?

• allele

• genotype

• chromosome

• phenotype

What is the term for the pattern of inheritance where both alleles are considered dominant and the heterozygous genotype results in seeing both traits ?

• codominance

• recessive

• dominance

• incomplete dominance

What is the term for the pattern of inheritance where one allele is dominant over the other?

• recessive inheritance

• incomplete dominance

• co-dominant inheritance

• dominant inheritance

What is the term for the inheritance pattern where the heterozygous phenotype results in the blending of traits?

• codominance

• incomplete dominance

• dominant inheritance

• recessive inheritance