Genetics and Heredity Quiz

What is the term used to describe the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits?

• Natural Selection

• Gene

• Selective breeding/Artificial Selection

• Embryo

What is the name of the diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment?

• Food Web

• DNA

• Gene

• Punnett Square

Which term refers to the basic physical and functional unit of heredity?

• DNA

• Gene

• Embryo

• Mutations

What is the term for the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem that shows who eats whom?

• Punnett Square

• Natural Selection

• Food Web

• Embryo

What is the term for a change in the DNA sequence?

• Embryo

• Natural Selection

• Gene

• Mutations

What is the term used to describe the early stage of development in multicellular organisms?

• DNA

• Food Web

• Embryo

• Punnett Square

What does DNA stand for?

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

• Dynamic Nuclear Application

• Direct Nucleotide Arrangement

• Diverse Natural Alleles

Which term describes the process by which the traits that help an organism survive and reproduce are more likely to be passed on to the next generation?

• Selective breeding/Artificial Selection

• Natural Selection

• Gene

• Mutations

What gives teeth their impressive strength and resistance to breakage?

• Structure of enamel and dentin

• Formation by ameloblasts

• Secretion of calcium phosphate

• External coating of fibrous material

How do odontoblasts and ameloblasts contribute to the formation of teeth?

• Odontoblasts move externally, while ameloblasts move internally

• Ameloblasts secrete dentin, while odontoblasts secrete enamel

• Odontoblasts secrete both enamel dentin

• Both secrete different layers of enamel