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Genetics

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
Date
1.

Heredity

a)

When the offspring is a male

b)

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

c)

When the offspring is a female

d)

When the offspring has a mutations

2.

What is an example of Heredity?

a)

When offspring has a different hair color as the parents

b)

When the offspring has the same color hair as the parents

3.

Trait

a)

When the offspring has the same personality as one of the parents

b)

A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through genes

c)

When the offspring has the same blood type as one of the parents

4.

Genetics

a)

The scientific study of heredity

b)

The study of offspring

c)

The study of genes

5.

Fertilization

a)

A type of soil

b)

The process of an animal giving birth

c)

The process when a female egg cell and a male sperm cell join to form a new cell

d)

The process of an animal pooping

6.

Purebred

a)

A dog

b)

A bread that is pure

c)

An offspring of many generations that has the same form of the trait

d)

An offspring that has many of the same traits as its parents

7.

Allele

a)

An offspring that has the same genes as its parents

b)

A singer

c)

The different forms of a gene

d)

A gene

8.

Dominant Allele

a)

When there is many more alleles

b)

Trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present

9.

What is this senerio an example of:

When your mom has blue eyes and your dad has brown then you have brown eyes

a)

Dominant Allele

b)

Phenotype

10.

Which are the dominant alleles

a)

tt

b)

Tt

c)

Pp

d)

pp

11.

Recessive Allele

a)

When there is a smaller amount of this

b)

An allele that is hidden when the dominant allele is present

c)

Two identical alleles

12.

Hybrid

a)

A car

b)

An offspring of crosses that has two different alleles for a trait

13.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Hybrid

b)

Dominant Allele

c)

Recessive allele

d)

A very cute mess

14.

Punnett Square

a)

A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross

b)

A painting

c)

The person who created the language of genetics

d)

A gene

15.

Phenotype

a)

An organism’s physical appearance, or visible traits

b)

A photo

c)

A gene

d)

A photo of an allele

16.

Genotype

a)

A gene type

b)

A bad allele

c)

An organism’s genetic makeup, or allele combinations

d)

An organism’s physical traits

17.

Choose which one you think is a better way to remember what a phenotype is:

a)

Phenotype = Physical traits

b)

Phenotype = Photo of an animal

18.

Choose which one you think is a better way to remember what a genotype is:

a)

Genotype = Genetic combo

b)

Genotype = what type of data

19.

Homozygous

a)

Idk

b)

Having two identical alleles for a particular gene

c)

Having two different alleles for a particular gene

d)

Having four of the same genes

20.

Choose which one you think is a better way to remember homozygous means:

a)

Homozygous (two of the same letters)

b)

Homozygous (two same looking homies)

21.

Choose which one you think is a better way to remember what heterozygous means:

a)

Heterozygous = ro rhymes with no (no same)

b)

Heterozygous = (short story) ➡️ Allele 1: there is no "us" we're just too different Allele 2: Fine then we're over

c)

Heterozygous = Hybrid

22.

Heterozygous

a)

Having two different alleles for a particular gene

b)

Having two identical alleles for a particular gene

c)

A plant

d)

A chart

23.

Gene

a)

A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent to offspring

b)

A person

c)

A plant

d)

An experiment

24.

True or False:

Purebred and homozygous is the same thing

a)

True

b)

False

25.

True or False:

Hybrid and heterozygous is the same thing

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Why did Gregor Medel use pea plants?

a)

Small, easy to grow

b)

Characteristics easily observed

c)

Those were the only plants he could get

d)

He just chose random plants

27.

Why did Gregor Medel use pea plants?

a)

it was just a random pick

b)

Easy to control mating

c)

IDK

d)

Matures quickly

28.

Who is the father of Genetics?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Gregor Mendel

c)

John Needham

d)

Issac Newton

29.

A dominant gene masks the effect of a ___________ gene

a)

recessive

b)

heterozygous

c)

allele

d)

homozygous

30.

Tallness (T) is dominant to shortness (t). What would the allele be if the plant is short?

a)

tt

b)

TT

c)

Tt

d)

tw

31.

Tallness (T) is dominant to shortness (t). What would the homozygous allele be if the plant is tall?

a)

tt

b)

TT

c)

Tt

d)

tw

32.

Tallness (T) is dominant to shortness (t). What would the heterozygous allele be if the plant is tall?

a)

tt

b)

TT

c)

Tt

d)

tw