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WorksheetsGenetics the Science of Heredity
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 18mins
Why did Gregor Mendel cross-pollinate plants?
to find the traits of the plant
to see which were dominant or recessive
to study different characteristics in his genetic experiments?
The probability of producing a tall pea plant from a genetic cross between two hybrid tall pea plants is____
1/4
2/4
3/4
4/4
A purebred chicken with white feathers is crossed with a purebred chicken that has black feathers. Each of their offspring has both black and white feathers because___
the cells dont mix
the alleles for feather color are neither dominant nor recessive.
the cells for feather color are neither dominant nor recessive
the alleles are broken down
During meiosis ________
chromosome pairs separate and are distributed into new sex cells.
chromosomes are divided in half.
the alleles are neither dominant nor recessive
An organism’s genotype is its
physical appearance
genetic makeup
In Mendel’s experiments, _______ of the plants in the F2 generation had a trait that had been absent in the F1 generation.
3/4
2/4
1/4
4/4
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait is a_____
hybrid
crossed purebred
genotype
phenotype
________ is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.
Luck
Chance
Probability
Magic
An organism’s physical appearance is its
genotype
phenotype
When sex cells combine to produce offspring, each sex cell will contribute _____ the number of chromosomes in body cells
1/4
half
double
3/4
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is ____.
heterozygous
homozygous
______ are made up of many genes joined together.
genes
chromatids
chromosomes
When Mendel crossed purebred short plants with purebred tall plants, all of the offspring were ___.
tall
short
The sex cells produced by meiosis have ____ the number of chromosomes as the parent cells.
double
half
A______ organism is the offspring of many generations of organisms that have the same trait.
hetero
homo
purebred
crossbred
Mendel used the principles of _____ to predict what percent of offspring would show a particular trait.
probability
genetics
guessing
psychiatrics
The process in which a parent cell divides twice to produce sex cells is called
genetics
meiosis
mitosis
If D represents the ___ allele of a gene, then d represents the ______ allele.
recessive, dominant
dominant, recessive
A chart used to predict results of genetic crosses id known as a
graph
pie chart
diagram
punnett square
An organism that has two dominant or two recessive alleles is said to be _____for that trait.
homozygous
heterozygous
dominant
recessive
If all of the sex cells of an organism have the T allele, the genotype of that organusm must be
tt
Tt
tT
TT
The chromosomes in a pair may each have ______alleles for each gene
different
the same
alike
related
An organism can't be heterozygous for some traits and homozygous for others.
True
False
Genes are carried from parents to their offspring on structures called
chromosomes
genotypes
hybrids
In a cross between two hybrid Tt pea plants, __percent or the offspring will be Tt.
10
30
50
70
If each of ten events is equally likely to occur, the probability of each individual event occurring is __ percent.
10
20
30
40
In pea plants, the tall-stem allele and the short-stem allele are different forms of the same
genotype
gene
phenotype
chromosome
Alleles that are neither dominant nor recessive produce an inheritance pattern known as
codominance
indominace
redominancessive
If a dominant allele is present, its trait will appear in the
phenotytpe
chromosome
organism
nucleus
An organism’s genotype is its
allele combinations
physical appearance
genetic makeup
A pea plant that is _______ for tall stems has the alleles Tt.
hetero
homo
is the offspring of parents that have different alleles for a trait.
peaplant
hybrid
purebred
crossbred
A _____ organism had two different alleles for a trait.
hetero
homo
The different forms of a gene are called
genotype
allele
phenotype
Tt means
1d 1r
2d
2r
Factors that control traits are called
genes
genotype
phenotype
nuclei
The chromosome theory of inheritance is that genes are carried from parents to offspring on
genes
genotypes
chromosomes
