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Mendelian Genetics Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Gregor Mendel?

a)

The Father of Evolution

b)

The Father of Modern Genetics

c)

Discovered Mendelism

d)

He is a mystical being

2.

What ground breaking work in science did Gregor Mendel do?

a)

He was an Austrian monk

b)

He bred pea plants together and came up with this idea of traits

c)

He came up with the idea of Natural Selection

d)

Mystical being

3.

How are traits passed down from parents to offspring?

a)

RNA

b)

Proteins

c)

DNA

4.

How could albino animals be born to parents that are not albinos?

a)

Recessive genes

b)

They cant, it is impossible

c)

Mutation

d)

Recessive genes and mutations

5.

An example of a HETEROZYGOUS genotype is

a)

ff

b)

FF

c)

Ff

d)

Fd

6.

EE or Ee is an example of which type of genotype?

a)

Homozygous

b)

Heterozygous

c)

Dominant

d)

Recessive

7.

What is the genotype for the DOMINANT form(s) for earlobes?

a)

ee

b)

EE

c)

Ee

d)

EE and Ee

8.

What are the four nitrogenous bases in DNA?

a)

Thymine

b)

Guanine

c)

Adenine

d)

Cytosine

9.

How is the structure of DNA described as?

a)

Single stranded

b)

A circle

c)

A swirl

d)

Double helix

10.

Which scientists are most famous for discovering the structure of DNA?

a)

Watson and Crick

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Avery

11.

The physical appearance of an organism is

a)

genotype

b)

phenotype

c)

trait

d)

gene

12.

What is the purpose of the Punnett Square?

a)

to show the possible offspring of two parents

b)

to show existing offpsring of two parents

13.

Homozygous means having two alleles that are the same

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The passage of genetic material from parents to offspring is

(a)  

15.

What is the acronym for Deoxyribonucleic Acid?

(a)