Meiosis and Mendelian Genetics

What do you call the physical expression of a gene?

• genotype

• dominant

• phenotype

• allele

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What is the genotype for an offspring with long hair?

• SS

• Ss

• ss

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What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis

• Elective traits

• Alleles

• Quadrants

If green is dominant over purple, then what is the genotype for this individual?

• Purple

• Green

• GG

• gg

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If a pea plant were homozygous recessive for height, how would its alleles be represented?

• TT

• Tt

• tt

• tT

A __________ is a segment of DNA that codes for a particular protein, which leads to a particular trait.

• Gene

• Allele

• Codon

• Nucleotide

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Two brown eyed parents (Bb) have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

• 0 %

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

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Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

• Modern Medicine

• Father of the Green Revolution

• Father of Genetics

• The Pea Plant Man

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T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt

• Tt

• Bb

• TT

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A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid

• Genetic Tic Tac Toe

• Punnett Square

• Pedigree Plot

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