Modes of Inheritance

Each one of the boxes on the Punnett square represents what probability of an offspring's genotype?

• 25%

• 1%

• 10%

• 0%

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The study of the inheritance of traits

• Genetics

• Biology

• DNA-ology

• Gene-ometry

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What's the probability an offspring will have the dominant Brown Eyes in this Punnett Square

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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An allele that masks or covers up the other gene.

• dominant

• recessive

• genotype

• phenotype

In pea plants, round seeds (R) are dominant to wrinkled seeds (r). Which of the following represents the genotype of a pea plant that is heterozygous?

• RR

• round

• Rr

• wrinkled

• rr

In mice, black fur (B) is dominant to white fur (b). According to the Punnett square shown, the offspring in box 4 would:

• be white.

• be heterozygous.

• be gray.

• be homozygous.

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In mice, black fur (B) is dominant to white fur (b). According to the Punnett square shown, how many offspring would be black?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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In a certain species of plant, the color purple (P) is dominant to the color white (p).
According to the Punnett Square, what is the probability of an offspring being purple?

• 25%

• 0%

• 100%

• 50%

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Which type of inheritance pattern involves a single gene affecting multiple traits?

• Pleiotropy

• Epistasis

• Polygenic inheritance

• Incomplete dominance

In a pedigree chart, what does a filled square typically represent?

• An affected male

• An unaffected male

• An affected female

• An unaffected female