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WorksheetsGenetics Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What Is Heredity?
a)
The transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring.
b)
Something to do with genes
c)
The study of Genetics
d)
None of the above
2.
What's Genetics?
a)
None of the Above
b)
Characteristics inherited by family
c)
100% of a gene or genes
d)
The science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
3.
What's a Dominant Gene?
a)
None of the Above
b)
A gene that is expressed phenotypically in heterozygous or homozygous individuals.
c)
A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
d)
The gene with the least power
4.
What's a Recessive Gene?
a)
The gene with the most power
b)
None of the Above
c)
A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
d)
The study of Family
5.
What is Genotype?
a)
The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
b)
Typing Genes
c)
A video game on computers
d)
The traits you are able to see on a person
6.
What is Phenotype?
a)
A game
b)
The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment.
c)
None of the Above
d)
The study of football
7.
What is Genetic Engineering?
a)
?
b)
the development and application of scientific methods, procedures, and technologies that permit direct manipulation of genetic material in order to alter the hereditary traits of a cell, organism, or population.
c)
based on genetics
d)
A biological procedure to determine criminal whereabouts
8.
What's Homozygous?
a)
having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
b)
Different things an organism can buy
c)
The price of something
d)
A disease
9.
What is Heterozygous?
a)
A cure for a disease
b)
A genetic malfunction
c)
1+1=None of the above
d)
having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic
10.
What is a punnett square?
a)
A rectangle
b)
None of these
c)
in genetics, a type of grid used to show the gametes of each parent and their possible offspring; a type of grid that can indicate all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross; also called checkerboard
11.
What are alleles?
a)
None of these
b)
A special type of meme or gif
c)
any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
12.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
a)
Father of Genetics
b)
A random man who robbed 8 stores in the 19th century
13.
What is a probability?
a)
Knowing something will happen
b)
a strong likelihood or chance of something
14.
Purebred is...
a)
of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
b)
Clean bread
c)
What some people call money
d)
The short term definition of the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
15.
The question is just here
What are some examples of traits?
What are some examples of traits?
a)
Personality
b)
Hair color
c)
Height
d)
All of these
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