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Challenge # 1 Ninth Grade

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which sequence of DNA bases would pair with this partial strand

ATG TGA CAG

a)

ATG TGA CAG

b)

GTA AGT GAC

c)

TAC ACT GTC

d)

CAT TCA CTG

2.

What determines the code, or information, of a DNA molecule?

a)

the shape (structure) of the nitrogen bases

b)

the color of the nitrogen bases

c)

the frequency (number) of nitrogen bases

d)

the order (sequence) of the nitrogen bases

3.

Which 2 molecules form the sides (backbone) of the DNA ladder?

a)

Deoxyribose sugar and adenine

b)

Deoxyribose sugar and the nucleus

c)

Deoxyribose sugar and phosphate

d)

Deoxyribose sugar and a hydrogen bond

4.

Traits that are passed from generation to generation are called ____________________

a)

Excited Traits

b)

Inherited Traits

c)

Special Traits

d)

Dominant Traits

5.

What are the nucleotides made of?

a)

Sugar, Phosphate, nitrogen base

b)

Thymine, Adenine, Cytomine

c)

Phosphate, Nitrogen, Adenine

d)

Phosphate, Adenine, nitrogen base

6.

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)

100% homozygous recessive

c)

50% heterozygous and 50% homozygous recessive

d)

25% heterozygous and 50% homozygous

7.

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)

75% white; 25% red

b)

100% white

c)

100% red

d)

75% red; 25% white

8.

 T - tall and t = short In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

a)

tt

b)

Tt

c)

Bb

d)

TT

9.

What are the phenotype percentages of the offspring?

(A-Brown fur color; a-white fur color)

a)

50 % Brown fur and 50% White fur

b)

25 % Brown fur and 75% White fur

c)

75 % Brown fur and 25% White fur

d)

0% Brown fur and 100% White fur

10.

Both parents in this Punnet square

a)

are homozygous dominant

b)

are heterozygous

c)

are homozygous recessive

d)

have blue eyes

11.

The genotypic ratio here is:

a)

25% blue eye 75 % brown eye

b)

BB= 50 % bb = 50%

c)

BB = 25% Bb = 50% bb = 25%

d)

All brown eye and one blue.

12.

What did Mendel notice about the pea plants in his monastery garden?

a)

Characteristics from parent plants were either present or not present in their offspring

b)

The plants got taller with each generation

c)

Characteristics from the parent plants were blended together to make the offsprin

d)

If one parent was tall, and the other short, the offspring would be a medium size

13.

Brown fur color is dominant over black fur color. Which of the following is the actual genotype of ALL of the offspring in the next generation of this cross for fur color?

AA x aa

a)

AA

b)

Aa

c)

Brown fur

d)

aa

14.

Purple is dominant to white. A heterozygous purple flower is crossed with a white flower. What are the genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring?

a)

100% Pp (purple)

b)

50% Pp (purple); 50% pp (white)

c)

25% PP, 50% Pp, 25% pp

75% purple, 25% white

d)

75% Pp (purple); 25% pp (white)

15.

What does heterozygous mean?

a)

An organism that has the same genes for a trait (TT or tt)

b)

An organism that has different allele for a trait (Tt)

c)

When neither gene is fully dominant; offspring is a mixture of both

d)

the different forms of a trait (hair color--> brown, blonde, red