Quiz on Gregor Mendel and Heredity

What did Gregor Mendel use to study heredity?

• Fruit flies

• Pea plants

• Bacteria

• Human genetics

How did Mendel ensure that he could be sure of the parents in his crosses?

• By using only one type of pollination

• By using two forms of pollinating

• By preventing self-pollination

• By allowing natural pollination

What is the term used for the first generation that Mendel produced from his crosses?

• P generation

• F1 generation

• F2 generation

• G generation

What did Mendel's experiments show about the inheritance of traits?

• Traits are inherited randomly

• Only one allele is inherited from each parent

• Traits are determined by factors now known as genes

• All traits are dominant

According to Mendel's Law of Segregation, what is true about organisms with the same phenotype?

• They have the same genotype

• They have different genotypes

• They cannot have hybrid offspring

• They are always homozygous

What tool did Reginald Punnett develop to predict the genotypes of offspring?

• Punnett square

• Mendelian chart

• Genetic map

• Phenotype predictor

Mendel was the first person to succeed in doing what?

• Creating a hybrid plant

• Developing a theory of heredity

• Growing a garden

• Identifying DNA

Where was Mendel's garden?

• In a monastery

• In a university

• In his backyard

• In a botanical garden

Why did Mendel work on pea plants?

How many traits did Mendel study?

• Five

• Seven

• Ten

• Twelve