Biology Quiz

Who is credited with discovering the structure of DNA?

• Crick and Holmes

• Watson and Holmes

• Holmes and Franklin

• Watson and Crick

A baby is XY for the gender or sex chromosome. That baby will be a _________.

• Boy

• Girl

• Kitten

• No way to know.

Which of the following is NOT an inherited trait?

• blood type

• a broken leg

• hair color

• leaf shape

Who is the monk known as the father of genetics?

• Mendel

• Rutherford

• Watson

• Welch

Where do an organism’s genes come from?

• the mother only

• the father only

• both the mother and father

• neither the mother or father

What is the term for a form of a gene?

• allele

• heredity

• trait

• genotype

Which trait is most likely determined by genes?

• how old a person is

• what a person likes to eat

• when a person wakes up

• whether a person has dimples

Which is a heterozygous genotype?

• Hh

• HH

• hh

• All of the above

Which is a homozygous genotype?

• Dd

• dd

• dD

• All of the above.

Which is a homozygous dominant genotype?

• Ff

• ff

• FF

• None of the above.