Missed Questions

Mendel's law of segregation states that during meiosis, the alleles that control each trait separate, and only _________________ from each pair is/are passed to the offspring

• one allele
• the dominant trait
• two alleles
• the recessive trait

Which of the following cell types is diploid?

• ovum
• sex cell
• body cells
• gamete

Which of the following describes an organism that has the genotype Bb.

• homozygous
• heterozygous
• inbred
• all of these

The law of independent assortment states that the inheritance of alleles for one trait is not affected by the inheritance of alleles for a different trait if the genes for the traits are on____________

• seperate chromosomes
• homologous chromosomes
• the same chromosome
• homozygous chromosomes

The ________ produced by each parent are shown along the side of a Punnet Square.

• zygotes
• offspring
• gametes
• hybrids

A useful device for predicting the possible offspring of crosses between genotypes is the 

• Law of dominance
• Law of independent assorment
• Punnett Square
• testcross

A female guinea pig homozygous dominant for black fur color is mated with a homozygous for white fur color. In a litter of eight offspring, there would probably be ________

• 8 black guinea pigs
• 4 black and 4 white guinea pigs
• 2 black, 4 gray and 2 white guinea pigs
• 8 white guinea pigs