WorksheetsInheritance
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the best definition for an "inherited trait?"
A genetic trait that is passed from parents to offspring
A trait that you develop by practicing
Anything that you get from your family
A gene
If an offspring receives an allele of genetic information for two different forms of a trait from its parents, which trait will it express?
It will share or blend the traits
Whichever trait is recessive
Whichever trait is dominant
There is a 50/50 chance of having either trait
If an offspring has a dominant form of a trait, for example hitchhikers thumb, it will also:
certainly have the dominant forms of other traits, for example a unibrow.
have the recessive form for other traits, for example freckles.
have an assortment or variety of recessive and dominant traits that are independent of each other.
have a 50/50 chance of having any form of a trait.
Mendel found that if he crossed a pure bred white-flowered pea plant with a pure bred purple-flowered pea plant:
half of their offspring were usually white and half were usually purple
All of the offspring were purple
All of the plants were white
The results were unpredictable
The genetic information that an offspring receives from it's parents for a form of a trait:
Recessive
Allele
Phenotype
Trait
A cell containing genetic information from each parent, for example a sperm or an egg.
Chromosome
Allele
DNA
Gamete
An offspring that receives 2 dominant alleles or 2 recessive alleles from its parents.
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Dominant
Recessive
An offspring that receives the dominant allele from one parent and the recessive allele from the other parent.
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Genotype
Phenotype
What happened when Mendel crossed hybrid plants- heterozygous plants with the genetic information for both tall and short traits?
If a black squirrel and a white squirrel had a baby, what color would it be? Use your knowledge of genetics and vocabulary from this week.
