Genetics

Who is Gregor Mendel

• an Austrian Monk from the mid 1800s who contributed to the study of Genetics

• The scientist who discovered the structure of DNA

• a British scientist who discovered penicillin

• The scientist who used X-Ray Crystallography to shed light on the structure of DNA

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What did Gregor Mendel study?

• Mold Spores

• Pea Plants

• Sun Flowers

• Rats

an observable characteristic

• trait

• personality

• cell

• DNA

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When an organism has two of the same alleles, it is called

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• recessive

• dominant

When an organism has two different alleles, it is called

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• recessive

• dominant

A/n _____ trait is a trait that prevents or masks the showing of another trait.

• controlling

• dominant

• influential

• superior

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A trait that is hidden by the presence of a dominant trait is known as a _____ trait.

• coy

• demure

• modest

• recessive

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A _____ _____ is a table used to predict what traits offspring will have, based on what traits the parents have.

• Odious Oblong

• Persnickety Galleria

• Punnett Square

• Quiddich Quadrangle

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A _____ is the physical appearance of an organism; i.e. black haired, blue-eyed, widow's peak.

• anyoldtype

• genotype

• notmytype

• phenotype

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The set of genes carried by an organism; i.e. TT, Tt, tt is called a _____.

• genotype

• phenotype

• prototype

• stereotype

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