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Units 5 and 6 Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are inherited traits?

a)

Traits that you inherit from your environment

b)

Traits that you only inherit from your mother

c)

Traits cannot be inherited

d)

Traits that are passed down genetically from parents to offspring

2.

What is heredity?

a)

Heredity is an event that only occurs in pea plants

b)

Heredity is the idea that traits can be passed down genetically

c)

Heredity is the idea that all traits you have come from your parents

d)

Heredity is the concept of time and how your genes change because of it

3.

What is the name of the gentleman who studied genetic inheritance through the breeding of pea plants?

a)

Sir Isaac Newton

b)

Queen Elizabeth IV

c)

Nicholas Copernicus

d)

Gregor Mendel

4.

Which of the following does the structure of DNA most closely resemble?

a)

A ladder

b)

A slide

c)

A ball of yarn

d)

A perfect circle

5.

What is a chromosome?

a)

A collection of genes, the coding sections of DNA

b)

The wasted space between sections of DNA

c)

A collection of DNA that is similar to a ball of yarn

d)

A group of cells that work together

6.

Which of the following pairings is correct?

a)

A with D and G with C

b)

A with T and G with C

c)

A with C and T with G

d)

A with G and T with C

7.

What is an allele?

a)

A section of DNA that codes for a trait

b)

The sections of DNA that don't code for anything at all

c)

A piece of DNA in the nucleus that may or may not code for something

d)

Groups of cells that work together to produce traits

8.

What is a phenotype?

a)

What your genes are, in terms of letters

b)

What your Punnett Square setup looks like

c)

What your body develops like

d)

What you look like

9.

What is your genotype?

a)

What your genetic makeup is

b)

What the letters in your Punnett Square setup will be

c)

What you look like as a result of your genes

d)

What your genes tell you to do

10.

Which of the following represents a heterozygous genotype?

a)

RR

b)

rr

c)

Sr

d)

Ss

11.

Which of the following shows a homozygous recessive genotype crossed with a heterozygous genotype?

a)

Gg x Gg

b)

GG x Gg

c)

gg x GG

d)

gg x Gg

12.

Which of the following is shows a cross between two heterozygous individuals?

a)

gg x gg

b)

Gg x Gg

c)

GG x GG

d)

Gg x gg

13.

Which of the following represents the idea that only the strongest individuals survive?

a)

survival of the fittest

b)

genetic engineering

c)

selective breeding

d)

natural selection

14.

Which of the following is the idea that the "fitter" group of individuals in a population (like giraffes with longer necks) will survive over a long period of time

a)

Survival of the fittest

b)

Selective breeding

c)

Natural selection

d)

Population decline