Mendelian Genetics Review

Who is known as the "father of genetics"?

• Charles Darwin

• Karl Ernst von Baer

• Gregor Mendel

• Francis Franklin

A HETEROZYGOUS individual would have the genotype:

• Hh

• hh

• HH

• Hi

In humans, blue eyes are a recessive trait. What genotype would a blue eyed child have?

• BB

• Bb

• bb

• None of the above, brown eyes are dominant.

In pea plants, tall (T) plant alleles are dominant to short (t) plant alleles. If two tall plants (each with the genotype Tt) are crossed, what is the probability that the cross would result in a short pea plant?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

Sections of DNA on a chromosome are called:

• nuclei.

• RNA.

• genes.

• traits.

In pea plants, the trait for tall stems is dominant over the trait for short stems. If two heterozygous tall plants are crossed, what percentage of the offspring would be expected to have the same phenotype as the parents?

• 100%
• 75%
• 50%
• 25%

The observable traits of an organism are known as its

• allele
• dominance
• phenotype
• genotype

Each parent contributes one of the genes for a particular trait. The genes of the pair are called:

• variables
• gametes
• hybrids
• alleles

In snapdragons, Tallness (T) is dominant to dwarfness (t). In a cross between two plants that are homozygous for the recessive allele, the percent of offspring expected to exhibit tallness is

•  25%
•  75%
• 100%
• 0%

The color black is dominant in guinea pigs. The phenotypes of homozygous black guinea pigs and heterozygous black guinea pigs are:

• black
• gray
• BB and Bb
• white