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Genetics 2022

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________
a)
Modern Medicine
b)
Father of the Green Revolution
c)

Father of Genetics

d)
The Pea Plant Man
2.
The different forms of a gene
a)
heredity
b)
genetics
c)
gene
d)
alleles
3.
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait (purebred)
a)
genotype
b)
phenotype
c)
homozygous
d)
heterozygous
4.

What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

a)

Heredity

b)

Genetics

c)

Traits

d)

Mendelian

5.

How a trait in physically expressed in an organism is a

a)

phenotype

b)

genotype

c)

gene

d)

dominant

6.
A red flowered plant (RR) is crossed with a white flowered plant (WW). The gene for petal color in these plants expresses incomplete dominance.  What percentage of the offspring will have pink (RW) flowers?
a)
0%
b)
25%
c)
50%
d)
100%
7.

What type of inheritance do two alleles have if their traits are expressed in equal amounts at the same time? 

a)
Incomplete Dominance
b)
Co-Dominance
8.

In chickens, feather color is incomplete dominant.  If a black chicken BB is mated with one that is black and white (BW) what are the chances of having a chicken that is gray?

a)
50%
b)
0%
c)
25%
d)
100%
9.
This trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present
a)
dominant allele
b)
codominance
c)
probability
d)
recessive allele
10.

A kitten is black. Both parents are white. What genotypes are the parents?

a)

one is homozygous recessive and the other is homozygous dominant

b)

both must be heterozygous

c)

both must be homozygous recessive

11.
If a gene is found only on the X chromosome and not the Y chromosome, it is said to be what?
a)
sex-linked trait
b)
polygenic trait
c)
codominant trait
d)
incomplete dominance trait
12.
If a trait shows up more commonly in men than women it is probably
a)
not inherited
b)

sex-linked

c)

dominant

d)
on a normal body chromosome
13.

Butterflies have a gene for wing color that has incomplete dominance. BB is blue and YY is yellow. Their offspring will have what phenotype?

a)

BY

b)

By

c)

Green

d)

Blue

14.

A chart that displays family relationships indicating traits or disorders

a)

Punnett square

b)

Pedigree

c)

Karyotype chart

15.

This disorder is called "Cry of the cat", comparing the normal chromosome on the left to the mutated one on the right, what type of mutation is this?

a)

Inversion

b)

Translocation

c)

Deletion

d)

Duplication

16.

Why do sex-linked disorders affect men more than women?

a)

males only have 1 X chromosome

b)

males do not have an X chromosome

c)

girls always have 2 defective X chromosomes

d)

males only have Y chromosomes

17.

A carrier is

a)

A person who is heterozygous for a recessive disorder

b)

A person who is homozygous dominant for a disorder

c)

A person who is homozygous recessive for a disorder

18.

If a dominant allele is found on at least on of an organism's homologous chromosomes, what can be said about the physical expression of that trait?

a)

It will have that trait because only one dominant allele is needed to express that trait

b)

It will not have that trait because both dominant allele is needed to express that trait.

c)

It will not have that trait because only one recessive allele is needed to express that trait

19.

What is the likelihood that the offspring will be yellow?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

75%

20.

H= normal blood clotting

h=hemophilia

XHXh x XHY

What is the probability that any of their offspring will have hemophilia?

a)

4/4

b)

3/4

c)

2/4

d)

1/4

21.

What pattern of non-Mendelian inheritance is shown by ABO blood group?

a)

Codominance

b)

Incomplete Dominance

c)

Multiple Alleles

d)

X-linked

22.

If a father had type AB blood and his child is type A blood, What are all the possible genotypes of the mother?

a)

AA or ii

b)

Only AB

c)

AB, AA, Ai, Bi, or ii

d)

AA, BB, Bi, or AB

23.

___________ is when two versions of a traits are expressed in the phenotype of the organism at the same time.

a)

Codominance

b)

Punnett squares

c)

Complete dominance

d)

Incomplete dominance

24.

What type of inheritance is most likely shown in this pedigree?

a)

polygenic

b)

autosomal dominant

c)

sex-linked

d)

pterodactyl

25.

Huntington's Disease is a autosomal dominant trait.

What is the chance individual 8 will be affected by Huntington's?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

26.
What situation causes a translocation?
a)
Part of the chromosome is missing
b)
Part of the chromosome is attached backwards
c)
Part of the chromosome breaks off and attaches to a different chromosome
d)
Part of a chromosome is duplicated 
27.

Black (B) and white (W) traits in squirrels are co-dominant. If I only want to breed black and white baby squirrels, what genotypes do their parents have to be?

a)

BB x WW

b)

BB x BW

c)

BW x BW

28.

Black (B) and white (W) traits in squirrels are co-dominant. If I have two parents that are black and white spotted, (BW) what is the chance that I could get a white baby squirrel?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

29.

According to the picture, yellow pod color is what?

a)

hybrid

b)

Dominant

c)

Recessive

d)

Heterozygous