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Heredity

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

a)

Heredity

b)

Genetics

c)

Traits

d)

Mendelian

2.

Blonde hair is a....

a)

Trait

b)

Genotype

c)

Gene

3.

What is the study of heredity?

a)

Genetics

b)

Mendel

c)

Pea plants

d)

Genes

4.

Genes are inherited in pairs, one from each parent.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Alleles are different forms of a gene.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A dominant trait: CHOOSE 2

a)

will block a recessive trait

b)

is shown with a capital letter

c)

always occurs more often

d)

is better

7.

Which of these is heterozygous?

a)

Hh

b)

HH

c)

hh

d)

None of these

8.

HH is

a)

homozygous dominant

b)

homozygous recessive

c)

heterozygous

d)

neither dominant nor recessive

9.

hh is

a)

homozygous recessive

b)

homozygous dominant

c)

heterozygous

d)

neither dominant nor recessive

10.

If long hair (H) is dominant to short hair (h), what is the phenotype of Hh?

a)

Long hair

b)

Dominant

c)

Medium hair

d)

Recessive

11.

Aa is a:

a)

genotype

b)

phenotype

c)

homozygous

d)

allele

12.

How a trait appears is a

a)

phenotype

b)

genotype

c)

gene

d)

dominant

13.

The two alleles that join to determine a phenotype are

a)

a genotype

b)

dominant

c)

recessive

d)

heterozygous

14.

Hybrid is another way of saying

a)

heterozygous

b)

purebred

c)

dominant

d)

recessive

15.

Homozygous is another way of saying

a)

Purebred

b)

Hybrid

c)

Dominant

d)

Recessive

16.

If you know that long hair (H) is dominant to short hair (h) and are shown this picture, can you say if this guinea pig is Hh or HH?

a)

No, Hh and HH have the same phenotype

b)

No, this guinea pig would be hh

c)

Yes, Hh and HH will look different

17.

What is the probability of Aa?

a)

50%

b)

100%

c)

25%

d)

0%

18.

If brown (B) is dominant to blue (b), what are the possible phenotype(s) of this cross?

a)

Brown and blue

b)

Bb and bb

c)

Brown

d)

Bb

19.

These parents are each

a)

Homozygous

b)

Heterozygous

c)

The same

d)

Heterozygous

20.

Salamanders have a co-dominant gene for color. XX is black and BB is blue. Their offspring will be:

a)

Colored with both black and blue showing

b)

A blended color of black and blue (like a very dark blue)

c)

All black

d)

All blue

21.

Butterflies have a gene for wing color that has incomplete dominance. BB is blue and YY is yellow. Their offspring will have what genotype?

a)

BY

b)

By

c)

Green

d)

Blue

22.

Butterflies have a gene for wing color that has incomplete dominance. BB is blue and YY is yellow. Their offspring will have what phenotype?

a)

BY

b)

By

c)

Green

d)

Blue