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Genetics Review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the father of genetics?

a)

Schleiden

b)

Monkey McMonkinstein

c)

Mendel

d)

Newton

2.

Which trait is most likely determined by genes?

a)

How old the person is.

b)

What the person likes to eat.

c)

When a person wakes up.

d)

If a person has dimples or not.

3.

What is an example of a genotype?

a)

rR

b)

Brown hair

c)

Blue eyes

d)

Rr

4.

What is an example of a phenotype?

a)

AA

b)

Red hair

c)

Chromosome

d)

Mutation

5.

The human body has how many chromosomes?

a)

2

b)

23

c)

46

d)

52

6.

How many chromosomes do you get from each parent?

a)

46

b)

23

c)

92

d)

24

7.

Select the match for the following DNA segment: CCTAT

a)

GGATA

b)

CCTAT

c)

TTGCG

d)

GCATT

8.

Create the match for the following DNA segment: GGGCA

a)

GGGCA

b)

CCCGT

c)

AAATC

d)

CCGGT

9.

Create the match for the following DNA segment: TATCG

a)

TATCG

b)

GCTAT

c)

ATAGC

d)

ATACG

10.

Create the following DNA segment ATTCG

a)

GCTTA

b)

ATTCG

c)

TACCC

d)

TAAGC

11.

How can you tell if a human karyotype is male or female?

a)

XY = female

XX = male

b)

XX = female

XY = male

c)

You can't tell.

d)

You ask the person with the karyotype.

12.

When creating a pedigree, if a child has the trait (is affected), both parents must be either a ______ or a _______.

a)

non-carrier, unaffected.

b)

non-carrier, affected

c)

carrier, affected

d)

carrier, unaffected

13.

If the child does not have the trait but their parent has the trait, the child must be a _________.

a)

demon

b)

unaffected

c)

transparent

d)

affected

14.

Original sequence: TGA CCA

Mutation: TGA CGA

What type of mutation ocurred?

a)

Substitution

b)

Deletion

c)

Insertion

d)

Normal

15.

Original: CAT GAT

Mutation: CTG AT

What type of mutation occurred?

a)

Substitution

b)

Insertion

c)

Deletion

d)

Normal

16.

Original: ATC CAT

Mutation: ATC CGA T

Explain what type of mutation occurred and what happened to the DNA.

a)

Substitution, C was paired with an C, which is incorrect.

b)

Insertion, the base pair G-A was added.

c)

Deletion, the base pair C- C was inserted.

d)

Nothing. Looks good to me.

17.

What are the possible results of a mutation for the organism?

a)

Harmful, Happy, Healthy

b)

Beneficial, Benefiber, Metamucil

c)

Beneficial, Neutral, Harmful

d)

Happy Tree Friends

18.

What is the shape of DNA?

a)

Spinny thingie

b)

Triple Helix

c)

Double Helix

d)

square

19.

What is DNA's real name?

a)

Do

Not

Ask (DNA)

b)

Dummy's

Need to

Ask (DNA)

c)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

d)

Demyelinated Normal Asperger's (DNA)