Genetics

In a flowering plant species, red flower color (R) is dominant over white flower color (r). What is the genotype of any red-flowering plant resulting from this species?

• rr

• R

• RR

• RR or Rr

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What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

How many alleles (letters) do each person carry for a trait?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

How many alleles (letters) does a child get from each parent for each trait?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa

• red hair

• heterozygous

• DNA

One form of a gene is called_______________

• a DNA

• a Phenotype

• a trait

• an allele

The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics 

• gene

• genetics 

• meiosis 

• hybrid 

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

In Punnett Square's, each box represents ____________.

• offspring

• parent

• gene

• trait

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Complex molecule that carries genetic information that defines an organism's traits. It is stored in the nucleus.

• DNA

• protein

• RNA

• glucose nucleic acid (GNA)

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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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NGSS.HS-LS3-1