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Worksheets3rd & 4th Grade Heredity Quiz
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 25mins
A tool used to figure out heredity possibilities is?
Punnett Square
Square Roots
Mendel's Mazes
George's Gauges
It is possible for two blue eyed parents to have a child with brown eyes?
True
False
It is possible for two brown eyed parents to have a child with blue eyes?
True
False
George Washington Carver became well known for?
Discovering peanuts
Inventing 300 uses for peanuts
being the first negro boy in his area to go to school
Being rescued from slave traders
George Washington Carver grew a secret garden because?
He was a slave and it was against the law for him to have a garden
He had to steal plant seeds to grow the garden
He wanted to learn how plants grew
His owner, Mr. Carver, did not want him to have a garden
A recessive traits covers up dominate traits?
True
False
The "Father of Heredity" is
Gregor Mendel
George Washington Carver
Charles Darwin
All living things are made of _______________?
water
cells
blood
minerals
Scientist can change DNA to create new traits?
True
False
Who became known as "The Plant Doctor" and later "The Peanut Man"?
Gregor Mendel
George Washington Carver
Charles Darwin
Two examples of inherited traits that are not important for survival.
being alert
being a swift runner
having brown eyes
having red hair
Two examples of inherited traits
being good at school
having dimples
having red hair
being good at sports
What are two examples of personal characteristics that are learned?
being good at school
having red hair
having dimples
being good at sports
All living things inherit traits from their parents
True
False
From his pea plant studies, Gregor Mendel discovered that ____________________?
peas grow better in sandy soil
all pea plants are exactly the same
some traits are dominate and some traits are recessive
peas taste good
Two examples of inherited traits important for survival?
being alert
having red hair
being a swift runner
having brown eyes
__________________________ both contribute to looks, behavior, and health.
Traits
Parents
Genes and environmental factors
Only nature
An example of natural selection is?
A species of bird that lives on two different islands and develops a thick crooked beak good for cracking shells on one island and the same species developing a thin beak good for getting nectar from plants on another island.
Different species of birds looking the same
Some cats having short hair and others having long hair
Siblings favoring each other
______________________ developed the idea survival of the fittest to explain how traits change over time.
Many scientist
Charles Darwin
George Washington Carver
Gregor Mendel
Inherited traits help living things have longer and better lives?
True
False
All plants and animals reproduce by cloning?
True
False
A clone is?
An exact copy of its one parent
Only in science fiction
What scientist create
An exact copy of both parents
The environment has no effect on inherited traits?
True
False
An example of environment affecting an inherited trait is?
Having red hair and freckles
Being short when your parents are tall
Brothers and sisters looking differently
Inheriting a tall gene but being short because of not having enough good food to eat
_________________ also shapes us into who we are, not just heredity.
Learning and experiences
Food
Talent
Nature
Some human traits are controlled by more than one gene?
True
False
Genes are located in the _______________ which forms the chromosomes
cytoplasm
DNA
water
blood
Chromosomes are located _________________________?
in the cell nucleus
in the air
in your blood
in water
Genes pass from parent to offspring in an unpredictable pattern?
True
False
_________________________ studied pea plants and learned how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
Gregor Mendel
George Washington Carver
Many scientist
You need two recessive genes to inherit the recessive trait?
True
False
You need two dominate genes to inherit the dominate trait?
True
False
_________________ tell your body how to work and grow and gives directions for which traits you will have
Nothing
Cytoplasm
Genes
Nature
Genes come in two different forms, dominate and recessive, __________.
alleles
jeans
cells
nucleus
When one allele of a pair takes control it is a ________________ trait
recessive
dominate
natural
unknown
Artificial selection, or selective breeding is?
Choosing what your favorite breed of an animal is
It is cloning
Breeders choosing traits they want and breeding like animals together that carry those traits
Growing plants in a lab
_______________________ created the different breeds of dogs we have today
Nature
Selective breeding
Dogs
Scientist
The way in which people differ from each other are by _______________?
where they live
who their parents are
their names
their traits
_________________ come in pairs. You inherit one copy of each gene from your mom and another copy of each gene from your dad
Genes
Traits
Offspring
Dominate
If you inherit a dominate allele from your mom and a recessive allele from your dad you will have _____________________?
The dominate trait from your mom
The recessive trait from your dad
Who knows, nature decides
a mixture of the trait
What does natural selection mean?
The traits you have are chosen by nature
Favorable genes that survive to produce offspring
Choosing to live in the country instead of the city
Your hair color, eye color, and height
Genes that are inferior or harmful do not survive to reproduce?
True
False
Offspring inherit their traits
from their mother
from their father
from both parents
by chance,they just happen
Examples of Inherited traits are?
leadership, and sports talent
hair color, height, and eye color
being good at sports, being tall, doing good in college
doing good at school, being good at sports, ability to get a good job
Where do you get the genes who make you who you are?
You inherit one set from your mother and one set from your father
You inherit everything from your mother if you are a girl and everything from your dad if you are a boy
You don't inherit anything, it just happens in nature
The things that happen to you are what make you, nothing is inherited.
