WorksheetsIntroduction to Genetic Disorder
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 13mins
Genetic information passing from parents to offspring via reproduction is...
Homeostasis
Asexual Reproduction
Heredity
What is an inherited Trait?
Physical characteristics of organisms that are passed from parents to their offspring (young).
Characteristics of organisms that are influenced by the environment.
Animals have inherited characteristics that are also affected by their environment.
A turtle swims in a polluted lake and gets a terrible disease. His children do not get the disease.
Inherited Traits
Acquired (Environmental) Traits
Inherited-Environmental Traits
Cystic Fibrosis is caused by an allel which is
Dominant
Reccessive
Both parents have to carry the cystic fibrosis allele for you to inherit the disease
True
False
Some people inherit 'faulty genes' which are caused by..
chromosomal mutation
gene mutation
environment
any type of mutation
Sickle cell anaemia is
a recessive sex linked disease
a dominant non sex linked inherited disease
a recessive non sex linked inherited disease
a dominant sex linked disease
