WorksheetsUnit 5: Genetics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the two ways to describe a trait?
a)
Heterozygous and Homozygous
b)
Genotype and Phenotype
c)
Dominant and Recessive
d)
incomplete dominance and co-dominance
2.
Dominant traits overshadow recessive traits.
a)
FALSE
b)
TRUE
3.
What is the gender?: XY
a)
female
b)
male
4.
What are the two ways to describe a genotype?
a)
Genotype and Phenotype
b)
Homozygous and Heterozygous
c)
Dominant and Recessive
d)
co-dominance and incomplete domincance
5.
Is the Genotype Aa homozygous or heterozygoys?
a)
Homozygous
b)
Heterozygous
6.
Who is the father of genetics?
a)
Albert Einstein
b)
Issac Newton
c)
Charles Darwin
d)
Gregor Mendel
7.
Is the genotype AA Heterozygous or Homozygous?
a)
Heterozygous
b)
Homozygous
8.
What is the physical characteristics of genes called?
a)
Genotype
b)
Incomplete dominace
c)
co-dominace
d)
phenotype
9.
What is the gender? : XX
a)
male
b)
female
10.
What are polygenic traits?
a)
dominant
b)
recessive
c)
more than one gene controls a trait
d)
incomplete dominance
11.
What causes down syndrome?
a)
Missing chromosome
b)
extra chromosme
12.
what is a punnet square?
a)
determines sex and genetic diseases
b)
pea plants
c)
shows the possible offspring of parents
d)
...
13.
What is a karyotype?
a)
shows offspring
b)
determines sex
c)
determines sex and genetic diseases
d)
pea plants
14.
What is the blending of traits?
a)
Co-dominance
b)
Incomplete dominance
c)
sex-linked traits
d)
Multiple alleles
15.
What is is called when offspring shows both of the parent's traits
a)
incomplete dominace
b)
sex-linked traits
c)
co-dominace
d)
recessive
16.
What is blood type an example of?
a)
co-domiance
b)
incomplete dominance
c)
multiple alleles
d)
dominance
17.
Men are more likely to get sex-linked diseases then women.
a)
true
b)
false
18.
only men get turners syndrome.
a)
true
b)
false
19.
Nondisjunction is when chromosomes fail to completely separate.
a)
False
b)
True
20.
Pedigrees show who is infected and who is a carrier in a family.
a)
False
b)
True
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