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SB3 Genetics

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is Gregor Mendel?

a)

Father of science

b)

Father of genetics

c)

Father of independent assortment

d)

Father of traits

2.

How are traits determined?

a)

By the person

b)

By the parts of tissue

c)

By the way they act

d)

By the genes on the chromosomes

3.

What are the parts on a chromosome?

a)

Chromatid

b)

Alleles

c)

Components

d)

Centromere

4.

What are the parts of telomeres?

a)

Repeats, acts as a gene, determines your looks

b)

Acts as a clock, repeats, pulls chromatids apart during mitosis

c)

Pulls chromatids during mitosis, highly condenses

d)

Repeats, acts as a biological clock, being whittled down at each mitosis

5.

What are the parts of the centromere?

a)

Repeats, acts as a clock, short arm/long arm

b)

Homologous, genes, arms

c)

Highly condensed, repetitive sequence, spindle fibers are attached, pulls chromatids apart during mitosis

d)

Chromatid, Genes

6.

What traits are dominant?

a)

TT

b)

Tt

c)

tt

7.

What trait is recessive?

a)

TT

b)

Tt

c)

tt

8.

Whats genotype?

a)

Letters on a chart (TT, Tt, tt)

b)

Results from gene makeup

c)

Predicts the gene makeup

d)

Homozygous/Heterozygous

9.

Whats phenotype?

a)

Homozygous/Heterozygous

b)

Letters on a chart (TT, Tt, tt)

c)

Results from gene makeup

d)

Predicts the gene makeup

10.

What is a punnet square for?

a)

To determine offspring

b)

To show what offspring will look like

c)

To predict possible gene makeup of offspring

d)

To look at the cross of two parents

11.

The term that that means to pass genetics from one generation to the next

a)

DNA

b)

Inheritance

c)

Traits

d)

Hereditary

12.

DIfferent forms of genes are called what?

a)

Traits

b)

Alleles

c)

Heterozygous

d)

Homozygous

13.

In bunnies, black bunnies and white parents will produce offspring with black and white. This is a result of

a)

dominance

b)

recessive genes

c)

dominant genes

d)

codominance

14.

What could come form the parents genotypes? (AABb)

a)

AB, Ab, AA, ab

b)

AB, AB, Ab, Ab

c)

Ab, AB, AB, ab

d)

AB, AA, Ab, aa

15.

White is recessive to pink so what is the genotype to these flowers?

a)

White

b)

Pp

c)

PP

d)

pp

16.

If you cross an animal with black fur (BB) with another with the genotypes (Bb), how many will be black?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

100%

d)

75%

17.

Whats another name for traits?

a)

Alleles

b)

Characteristics

c)

Genes

d)

Genetics

18.

How many bananas will be green?

a)

25%

b)

100%

c)

50%

d)

75%

19.

What bananas will be yellow?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

20.

What is this called?

a)

Punnett square

b)

Purebreed

c)

Dihybrid

d)

Genetics

21.

How many will be yellow with a sponge texture?

a)

10

b)

13

c)

3

d)

4

22.

What is the dominant trait in this punnett square

a)

Green

b)

Yellow

c)

Purple

d)

White

23.

What is the recessive trait?

a)

Green

b)

Yellow

c)

Bananas

24.

Two green eyed parents (Gg) have a baby. What is the chance the baby is blue eyed?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

25.

If a blonde parent (Bb) and a parent with brown hair (bb) have baby, what is the possibility that their child will have blonde hair?

a)

50%

b)

75%

c)

25%

d)

100%

26.

What is it called when a gene "prevents" another gene from showing?

a)

Dominance/Dominant

b)

Recessive

c)

Codominance

d)

Inheritance

27.

Gene that does not show even though it is present

a)

Inheritance

b)

Dominance/Dominant

c)

Recessive

d)

Codominance

28.

If brown fur is dominant then what statement is true?

a)

This horse has two dominant traits (BB)

b)

This horse does not have brown fur

c)

This horse has two recessive traits (bb)

d)

The horse can be both (Bb) and (BB)

29.

What is purebreed?

a)

TT

b)

Tt

c)

tt

30.

What the difference between homozygous and heterozygous?

a)

Homozygous has two of the same alleles and heterozygous has two different alleles

b)

Homozygous and heterozygous are the same

c)

Heterozygous has two of the same alleles and homozygous has two different alleles