WorksheetsTopic 3-5 quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does biodiversity mean?
a)
Only one species in an area.
b)
The different amount of species in an area
c)
All abiotic life
d)
Nitrogen fixation
2.
All living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact are called ______
a)
ecosystem
b)
community
3.
T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square
a)
tt
b)
Tt
c)
Bb
d)
TT
4.
What is one advantage of sexual reproduction?
a)
offspring are identical to parents
b)
offspring are resistant to viruses
c)
offspring are born live, rather thna from eggs
d)
offspring inherit a wider variety of genetic information
5.
What are small stretches of DNA that code for traits
a)
Nucleus
b)
Chromosomes
c)
Gene
d)
Centromeres
6.
Where is all the genetic information in a cell?
a)
Nucleus
b)
Nucleotides
c)
Chromosomes
d)
Cytoplasm
7.
Which of the following traits is not inherited?
a)
Fur color
b)
Feathers
c)
Hair color
d)
A suntan
8.
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
a)
Heredity
b)
Genetics
c)
Hybrid
d)
Probability
9.
which is heterozygous ?
a)
Tt
b)
TT
10.
Which is homozygous ?
a)
Zz
b)
SS
11.
What are the three components of a nucleotide?
a)
Sugar, phosphate, cellulose
b)
Protein, sugar, nitrogen base
c)
Sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
d)
Cytoplasm, phosphate, nitrogen base
12.
How many chromosomes are in the human body?
a)
12
b)
23
c)
46
d)
92
13.
Which of the following statements are incorrect?
a)
Mutations are contagious
b)
Mutations are caused by mutagens, like chemicals and viruses
c)
Mutations can be positive, negative or neutral
d)
Mutations involve adding, deleting or substituting a base
14.
What base will pair with cytosine?
a)
Adenine
b)
Thymine
c)
Guanine
d)
Cytosine
15.
Starting with one cell, how many daughter cells are formed after one round of mitosis?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
16.
The male part of the flower is________
a)
pistil
b)
sepal
c)
ovaries
d)
stamen
17.
The part of the flower on which the pollen grains land.
a)
pistil
b)
stamen
c)
sepals
d)
stigma
18.
What is the sticky part of the flower that catches pollen?
a)
style
b)
stigma
c)
ovary
d)
petal
19.
Why are flowers very colorful (and why do they produce odor?)
a)
So people buy them
b)
To make gardens look good
c)
To attract pollinators
d)
To attract sunlight
20.
In asexual reproduction, all of the offspring are:
a)
Physically Identical
b)
Genetically Identical
c)
Physically and Genetically Identical
d)
Not Identical
21.
If the environment changes for an Asexual offspring it will?
a)
Explode
b)
Create another offspring
c)
Fall in love
d)
Die
22.
What are some of the facts about asexual reproduction?
a)
Takes only one mate to reproduce and takes a longer time to reproduce
b)
Takes a shorter amount of time to reproduce and it takes two mates to reproduce
c)
Reproduces diverse offspring and takes a longer time to reproduce
d)
Takes only one mate to reproduce and takes a shorter time to reproduce
23.
When comparing the offspring of sexually and asexually reproducing organisms, we would expect the genetic material (DNA) of the sexually reproducing organism to -
a)
contain fewer mutations
b)
be lesser in quantity
c)
be simpler overall
d)
show more variation
24.
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of asexual reproduction?
a)
More efficient.
b)
All organisms can reproduce
c)
No wasted effort finding a mate.
d)
Population has variety to survive in a changing environment.
25.
A plant with orange flowers was crossed with a plant with blue flowers. All of the offspring have orange flowers. Which of these terms describes the blue flower trait?
a)
Recessive
b)
Dominant
c)
Codominant
d)
Incomplete Dominance
26.
The punnett square shows a cross between two flowering plants. One parent has pink flowers (Pp) and the other parent has white flowers (pp). What percentage of pink flowers will you have?
a)
0
b)
25
c)
50
d)
75
27.
The cross of a plant with white flowers (WW) and a plant with Green flowers (ww) is shown in the Punnett square below. What would be the genotype and phenotype of the offspring from this cross?
a)
Ww - white
b)
Ww - green
c)
WW - white
d)
ww - green
28.
Genotype refers to the ...
a)
physical expression of the genes
b)
the possible combination of alleles in a gene
c)
whether an allele is dominant or recessive
d)
how an organism will appear
29.
having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).
a)
homozygous
b)
hetrozygous
c)
protein
d)
chromosome
30.
Magda is a tall, 11 year old drummer. She has a scar on her right cheek. She is good at swimming. Which of her traits did Magda most likely inherit?
a)
height
b)
the scar
c)
ability to swim
d)
ability to play drums
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