Interactive Life Science

When humans select parents with desirable traits for breeding to create offspring with those traits.

• Gentic Engineering

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

When humans tinker with the DNA of an organism to get a desirable outcome.

• Selective Breeding

• Genetic Engineering

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Differences among individual members of a population of living things.

• Variation

• Hybrid

• Genetics

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

If B = brown eyes and b = blue eyes, how many would have brown eyes? (assume simple dominance)

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

How many individuals have the trait being tracked?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

If the genotype of the shaded individuals is "aa", what is the genotype of the unshaded individuals?

• aa

• AA

• Aa

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What do you call different forms of a characteristic?

• A trait

• A chromosome

• A pedigree

• A Punnett square

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Type of dominance where both traits mix (like paint) in a heterozygous individual.

• Simple

• Incomplete

• Codominance

Type of dominance where both traits are expressed at the same time in a heterozygous individual.

• Simple

• Incomplete

• Codominance

The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Selective Breeding

• Genetic Engineering

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2