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Genetics Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the Father of Genetics?

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Gregor Mendel

c)

Albert Einsten

d)

Albert Wegener

2.

What is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring?

a)

biology

b)

botany

c)

molecular biology

d)

genetics

3.

What is the genetic makeup of an organism?

a)

genotype

b)

phenotype

c)

gene type

d)

comparative alleles

4.

What are the different variations of a gene ?

a)

mutation

b)

genotype

c)

phenotype

d)

allele

5.

What is the physical expression of a trait?

a)

genotype

b)

mutation

c)

genetic disorder

d)

phenotype

6.

What does heterozygous mean?

a)

the different forms of a trait (red hair, brown hair, etc)

b)

when an organism has two of the same alleles for a trait (ex. RR)

c)

when an organism has two different alleles for a trait (ex.Tt)

d)

neither gene is dominant over the other and a blend of both traits appear in the offspring

7.

What is the name of this diagram?

a)

Inheritance square

b)

Genotype 4 square

c)

Pedigree

d)

Punnett Square

8.

What does homozygous mean?

a)

when an offpsring has 2 of the same alleles for a trait

b)

when an offspring has 2 different allels for a trait

c)

when the offspring only has 1 allele for a trait

d)

when the offspring has 2 alleles for a trait

9.

What are the letters Ss and example of ?

a)

homozygous genes

b)

domianant genes

c)

heterozygous genes

d)

recessive genes

10.

What do the letters nn represent?

a)

recessive genes

b)

dominant genes

c)

heterzygous genes

d)

homozygous genes

11.

What goes in the missing square?

a)

AA

b)

aa

c)

A

d)

a

12.

A homozygous dominant chicken with black fur is crossed with a heterozygous chicken with black fur. What are the percentages of the possible genotypes?

a)

50% BB and 50% Bb

b)

25% BB and 75%Bb

c)

75% BB and 25% Bb

d)

100% BB

13.

Long tails in monkeys (L) is dominant to short tails (l). What are the percentages of genotypes if you cross a homozygous dominant monkey with a homozygous recessive monkey.

a)

50% LL 50% ll

b)

50% LL and 50% Ll

c)

75% LL and 25% Ll

d)

100% Ll

14.

How many alleles does an offspring inherit from each parent for every trait?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

15.

What controls genetic traits?

a)

chromosomes

b)

Punnett Squares

c)

Pedigrees

d)

genes

16.

When an offspring has the recessive form of a trait, what does that mean about the parents?

a)

Both parents must have 2 dominant alleles

b)

one of the parents has 2 dominant alleles and the other parent has 2 recessive alleles

c)

one parent has 2 recessive alleles and the other parent 1 dominant and 1 recessive allele

d)

recessive traits never show up

17.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a genotype?

a)

RR

b)

Rr

c)

rr

d)

long

18.

Having 2 of the same type of allele is also called __________.

a)

purebred

b)

homologous

c)

heterzygous

d)

hybrid

19.

What is a section of DNA called?

a)

phenotype

b)

gene

c)

chromosome

d)

mutation

20.

Which genotype should go in space #3?

a)

DD

b)

dd

c)

dD

d)

Dd