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Genetics Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters?

a)

Capital

b)

Lowercase

2.

A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

a)

Mendel Grid

b)

Genetic Tic Tac Toe

c)

Punnett Square

d)

Pedigree Plot

3.

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________.

a)

predators to prey

b)

water to rain

c)

fungi to protists

d)

parents to offspring

4.

___________________________ is the field of science that studies of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

a)

dominant traits

b)

genetics

c)

phenotype

d)

ratio

5.

The father of genetics.

a)

Mendel

b)

Kodak Black

c)

Napolean

d)

EM Tiffany

6.

One gene from the pair is called an _______ - a form of the trait.

a)

Homozygous gene

b)

Chromosome

c)

Allele

d)

Trait

7.

The trait that will always be expressed when present.

a)

Inherited trait

b)

Recessive trait

c)

Dominant trait

d)

Heterozygous Gene

8.

When two alleles for a trait are the same, e.g. TT, or tt.

a)

Heterozygous

b)

Homozygous

c)

Monohybrid cross

d)

Hybrid

9.

When two alleles for a trait are the different, e.g. Tt.

a)

Heterozygous

b)

Homozygous

c)

Monohybrid cross

d)

Hybrid

10.

What is a gene?

a)

An entire chromosome that codes for a trait

b)

a piece of clothing

c)

a piece of a DNA on chromosome that codes for a trait

d)

Chemical messengers in your brain that code for a trait

11.

What is genotype?

a)

physical appearance

b)

genetic makeup of an organism

c)

a mutation

d)

cell division

12.

What is phenotype?

a)

physical appearance

b)

genetic makeup of an organism

c)

a mutation

d)

cell division

13.

Threadlike structure of nucleic acids and proteins found in the nucleus of most living cells carrying genetic information in the form of genes

a)

Gene

b)

Allele

c)

Base Pair

d)

Chromosome

14.

When part of a DNA molecule is not copied during DNA replication.

a)

Deletion Mutation

b)

Mutation

c)

Altered Base

d)

DNA isolated

15.

DNA is...

a)

Dionic Rubo Acid

b)

Helix of amino acids

c)

Carrier of genetic information

d)

Eukaryotic cell

16.

The addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence

a)

DNA altercation

b)

DNA addition

c)

Insertion addition

d)

Insertion Mutation

17.

Genetically determined characteristic

a)

Trait

b)

Gene

c)

Allele

d)

Chromesome

18.

Substitution Mutation

a)

Alters the DNA molecule

b)

substitutes various genes

c)

exchanges one base for another

d)

compliments the RNA pair

19.

Down-syndrome is an example of a _____________ in the 21st chromosome.

a)

mutation

b)

deletion

c)

heterozygous

d)

homozygous

20.

What are the possible phenotypes in this punnett square?

a)

Bb, bb, BB

b)

Bb, bb

c)

purple, white

d)

light purple