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WorksheetsChapter 5 section 1 science quiz
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is heredity?
a)
traits passing from offspring to parents
b)
traits passing from parents to offspring
c)
offspring with no genotypes
d)
traits disappearing in offspring
2.
In what country was Gregor Mendel born?
a)
United States
b)
Austria
c)
Germany
d)
Italy
3.
Where did Gregor Mendel first learn about flowers and trees?
a)
in a lab
b)
at a college
c)
at a monastery
d)
on a farm
4.
Where did Gregor Mendel do his research?
a)
in a lab
b)
at a college
c)
at a monastery
d)
on a farm
5.
what is it called when a plant can fertilize itself?
a)
self pollinating
b)
cross pollinating
c)
true -breeding
d)
magic pollinating
6.
How do offspring have the exact same traits as their parents?
a)
self- pollinating
b)
cross-pollinating
c)
true-breeding
d)
magic breeding
7.
What is it called when one plant fertilizes another plant?
a)
self-pollinating
b)
cross-pollinating
c)
true -breeding
d)
magic- breeding
8.
What are different forms of characteristics?
a)
characteristics
b)
traits
c)
genes
d)
alleles
9.
What did Mendel use for his experiments?
a)
pea plants
b)
mushrooms
c)
carnations
d)
roses
10.
What a features with different forms in a population?
(ex hair color)
(ex hair color)
a)
traits
b)
characteristics
c)
alleles
d)
genes
11.
A trait that is always seen in the first generation
a)
recessive
b)
mutatation
c)
dominant
d)
blue eyes
12.
A trait that hides in the first generation, but reappears in the second generation?
a)
dominant
b)
mutation
c)
mistake
d)
recessive
13.
What happened in the second generation, when Mendel allowed the first-generation plants to self-pollinate?
a)
the recessive trait showed up
b)
the dominant trait disappeared
c)
the dominant trait showed up
d)
the recessive trait disappeared
14.
What is a ratio?
a)
the second generation of a pea plant
b)
the relationship between two things (ex black haired offspring compared to brown haired offspring)
c)
the cross-pollination of a plant
d)
the passing of traits from parents to offspring
15.
When did Mendel get the recognition he deserved?
a)
more than 30 years after his death
b)
the day he died
c)
immediately after his experiments
d)
100 years after his death
16.
what do scientists call instructions for an inherited trait?
a)
alleles
b)
phenotype
c)
albinism
d)
genes
17.
What is the ratio that Mendel found for dominant to recessive traits?
a)
1 to 1
b)
2 to 1
c)
3 to 1
d)
4 to 1
18.
What is a phenotype?
(hint; photograph)
(hint; photograph)
a)
an inherited problem
b)
a group of 10 alleles
c)
a recessive gene
d)
the way an organism looks
19.
What are the two forms of a gene called? (one letter by itself B or b you get one from mom and one from dad)
a)
alleles
b)
phenotype
c)
albinism
d)
genes
20.
What prevents hair, skin and eyes from having ANY color?
a)
alleles
b)
albinism
c)
ratio
d)
probability
21.
What kind of plant has one dominant gene and one recessive gene? (Bb)
a)
an organism
b)
a genotype
c)
homozygous
d)
heterozygous
22.
What are both inherited alleles together called? (for example Bb
the genes from each parent)
the genes from each parent)
a)
an organism
b)
genotype
c)
homozygous
d)
heteozygous
23.
What is this table called?
a)
P-grid
b)
dominance chart
c)
heredity map
d)
Punnett Square
24.
What is a Punnett square used for?
a)
to show recessive traits
b)
to show possible offspring
c)
to show dominant traits
d)
to show homozygous alleles
25.
What is it called when each allele has its own degree of influence?
a)
incomplete dominance
b)
complete dominance
c)
cross-breeding
d)
probability
26.
How many genes determine the human eye color?
a)
none
b)
at least two
c)
1,000
d)
one
27.
what can influence traits besides genes?
a)
height
b)
albinism
c)
environment
d)
phenotype
28.
Look at the table above. If purple flower color(P) is dominant , what color will most of the offspring be?
a)
purple
b)
white
c)
the same number of purple and white
d)
lavender ( white and purple mix
29.
In the table what is the probability that the offspring will be Pp ?
a)
25%
b)
50%
c)
75%
d)
100%
30.
which two combinations of genotypes are the same/
a)
PP and Pp
PP and Pp
PP and Pp
b)
Pp and pP
c)
pp and Pp
d)
pP and pp
31.
What is the chance of a parent with one green allele and one blue allele giving a blue allele to an offspring?
a)
100%
b)
25%
c)
50%
d)
75%
32.
the chance that something will happen
a)
multiply
b)
only two choices
c)
fraction or percent
d)
probability
33.
how will probably is usually written
a)
multiply
b)
only two choices
c)
fraction or percent
d)
probability
34.
how do we find probability
a)
multiply
b)
only two choices
c)
fraction or percent
d)
probability
35.
reason traits in pea plants are easy to predict
a)
multiply
b)
only two choices
c)
fraction or percent
d)
probability
36.
A white tiger's blue eyes are an example of what?
a)
first generation dominance
b)
dominant trait
c)
many genes influencing one trait
d)
one gene influencing more than one trait
37.
How many chromosomes do human sex cells have?
a)
100
b)
23
c)
one
d)
none
38.
What copying process makes cells with half the usual number of chromosomes?
a)
sex cells
b)
meiosis
c)
a nucleus
d)
mitosis
39.
What is made during meiosis?
a)
common human cells
b)
sex cells
c)
genes
d)
chromosomes
40.
Where did Walter Sutton suggest that genes are found?
a)
on offspring
b)
in sex cells
c)
in typical cells
d)
on chromosomes
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