wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Genetics

Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A green pea plant (Gg) is crossed with a yellow pea plant (gg). Describe the genotype of the offspring. (Be sure to remember that the capital letter is dominant).

a)

50% heterozygous and 25% homozygous recessive

b)

50% heterozygous and 50% homozygous recessive

c)

100% homozygous recessive

d)

25% heterozygous and 50% homozygous

2.

A tall plant (TT) is crossed with a tall plant (Tt). What is the phenotype of the offspring?

a)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous; 100% tall

b)

100% homozygous dominant; 100% tall

c)

25% homozygous dominant; 75% heterozygous; 100% short

d)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous; 100% short

3.

A tall plant (Tt) is crossed with a short plant (tt). What is the genotype of the offspring?

a)

25% heterozygous; 75% homozygous

b)

100% homozygous dominant

c)

100% heterozygous

d)

50% heterozygous; 50% homozygous dominant

4.

A tall plant (Tt) is crossed with a short plant (tt). What is the phenotype of the offspring?

a)

75% tall; 25% short

b)

25% tall; 75% short

c)

50% tall; 50% short

d)

100% tall

5.
A white flower (rr) is crossed with a white flower (rr). What is the genotype of the offspring? Draw a Punnett square and answer the question.
a)
100% homozygous dominant
b)
100% heterozygous dominant
c)
100% homozygous recessive
d)
100% heterozygous recessive
6.
A white flower (rr) is crossed with a white flower (rr). What is the phenotype of the offspring? Draw a Punnett square and answer the question.
a)
100% white
b)
75% white; 25% red
c)
75% red; 25% white
d)
100% red
7.
A black chicken (BB) is crossed with a black chicken (BB). What is the genotype and phenotype of the offspring? Draw a Punnet square and naswer this question.
a)
100% heterozygous; 50% black
b)
100% homozygous dominant; 100% black
8.
A red flower (Rd) is crossed with a white flower (rr). What is the genotype of the offspring? Draw a Punnett square and answer this question.
a)
50% heterozygous; 50% homozygous dominant
b)
100% homozygous dominant
c)
100% homozygous recessive
d)
50% heterozygous; 50% homozygous recessive
9.

A homozygous dominant brown mouse (BB) is crossed with a heterozygous brown mouse (tan is the recessive color). List the offspring genotype and phenotype.

a)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous and 100% tan

b)

25% homozygous dominant; 75% heterozygous; 100% brown

c)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous and 100% brown

d)

75% homozygous dominant; 25% heterozygous and 100% tan

10.

Two heterozygous white (brown fur is recessive) rabbits are crossed. What is their genotype?

a)

25% homozygous domestic; 25% homozygous recessive; 50% heterozygous

b)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous

c)

25% homozygous domestic; 75% homozygous recessive

11.

Two heterozygous white(brown fur is recessive) rabbits are crossed. What is the phenotype of the offspring?

a)

75% white; 25% brown

b)

25% white; 75 % brown

12.

Two heterozygous red flowers (white flowers are recessive) are crossed. What is the genotype of the offspring?

a)

75% homozygous dominant; 25% heterozygous

b)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous

c)

25% homozygous dominant; 25% homozygous recessive; 50% heterozygous

13.

Two heterozygous red flowers (white flowers are recessive) are crossed. What is the phenotype of the offspring?

a)

50% red; 50% white

b)

75% white; 25% red

c)

25% red; 25% pink; 50% white

d)

75% red; 25% white

14.

A homozygous tall plant (TT) is crossed with a heterozygous tall plant (Tt) (short is the recessive phenotype). What are the genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring?

a)

100% homozygous dominant; 100% tall

b)

50% homozygous dominant; 50% heterozygous and 100% tall

c)

25% heterozygous; 75% homozygous dominant and 100% tall

15.
A heterozygous white rabbit is crossed with a homozygous black rabbit. List the parent genotypes; draw and fill and Punnett square, and then list the offspring genotypes and phenotypes. 
a)
genotype-25% heterozygous; 75% homozygous recessive and phenotype-50% white and 50% black
b)
genotype- 50% heterozygous; 50% homozygous recessive and phenotype- 50% white and 50% black
16.

The study of ____________ is called genetics

a)

heredity

b)

dominance

c)

pea plants

d)

mutations

17.

Gregor Mendel studied heredity using _______ plants

a)

rose

b)

pea

c)

berry

d)

corn

18.

If you cross a white flower (pp) with a purple flower (PP), the possible genotypes of the offspring are

a)

PP and pp

b)

All Pp

c)

All PP

d)

All pp

19.

If you crossed a PP (purple) with a pp (white), what would the phenotypes be?

a)

all white

b)

all tall

c)

all purple

d)

1/2 white, 1/2 purple

20.

The organism's appearance is known as its

a)

heredity

b)

pedigree

c)

phenotype

d)

genotype

21.

If you cross two rabbits that have the genotype Bb, how many possible genotypes can be found in the offspring?

a)

one

b)

two

c)

three

d)

four

22.

_____________ describes a trait that covers over, or masks another form of that trait.

a)

recessive

b)

gene

c)

allele

d)

dominant

23.

_________________ describes a trait that is covered over, or masked by another form of that trait.

a)

dominant

b)

punnett

c)

recessive

d)

gene

24.

Different forms of a gene are called

a)

alleles

b)

traits

25.

Two of the same alleles of the gene for a certain trait

a)

heterozygous

b)

homozygous

26.

Two different alleles of the gen for a certain trait

a)

homozygous

b)

heterozygous

27.
If green is dominant over purple, then what is the genotype for this individual?
a)
Purple
b)
Green
c)
GG
d)
gg
28.
Which is the correct phenotype for this organism?
a)
BB
b)
blue
c)
green
d)
bb
29.
What is the genotype for this organism?
(E= 3 eyes, e= 1 eye)
a)
EE
b)
Ee
c)
ee
d)
EE or Ee
30.
If something is heterozygous, it is also...
a)
purebred
b)
hybrid
c)
dominant
d)
recessive
31.
Which represents the genotype of a homozygous condition?
a)
Bb
b)
BC
c)
bb
d)
bc
32.

When you cross two parents, each parent is responsible for passing _______ of their two alleles for each individual trait.

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

33.

Grey (G) fur is dominant to brown (g) fur in mice. What would be the genotype of a mouse that is heterozygous?

a)

GG

b)

Gg

c)

gg

d)

GGG

34.

What is AA

a)

Homozygous Dominant

b)

Heterozygous

c)

Homozygous Recessive

d)

Heterozygous dominant

35.
When neither trait of the parents is fully expressed.  Happens with heterozygous combinations.  A blending of two traits
a)
Gene Expression
b)
Co-Dominance
c)
Incomplete Dominance
d)
Phenotype
36.
When different traits are crossed and both are expressed in an organism
a)
Co-Dominance
b)
Gene expression
c)
Intermediate Inheritance
d)
Incomplete Dominance
37.
Homozygous Dominant
a)
Gg
b)
ff
c)
DD
d)
Hh
38.

This type of inheritance pattern shows BOTH traits in possible offspring

a)

complete dominance

b)

incomplete dominance

c)

co-dominance

d)

shared traits

39.

A red flowered plant (RR) breeds with a White flowered plant (WW). The gene for petal color in these plants expresses incomplete dominance. What percentage of the offspring will have pink (RW) flowers?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

100%

40.
A calico cat shows both the traits for orange fur and black fur. What kind of allele expression is this?
a)
Incomplete Dominance
b)
Co dominance
41.
In chickens, feather color is codominant.  If a black chicken BB is mated with one that is black and white (BW) what are the chances of having a chicken that is black and white?
a)
50%
b)
0%
c)
25%
d)
100%
42.
If this image were real, it would represent what type of inheritance?
a)
incomplete dominance
b)
codominance
c)
polygenic inheritance
d)
compete dominance
43.
How are Incomplete Dominance and Co Dominance different than a normal Mendelian cross?
a)
There is no difference
b)
The heterozygous genotype has a unique phenotype
c)
There is no heterozygous genotype
d)
There is only one phenotype regardless of genotype.