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Ch 5.1 Mendel and His Peas

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name

Class

Date

Which of the following is homozygous recessive?

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

Pea Plant

Pigeons

Pear trees

Photosynthesis

Identify the homozygous dominant genotype:

An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present. The "stronger" gene.

Dominant Allele

Recessive Allele

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

all of the choices result in yellow

___________is the likelihood, or chance, that a certain event will occur.

Chuck Norris

Probability

Locus

Inheritance

Which of the following is a phenotype?

red hair

heterozygous

An organism's genetic make-up, like having a TT or Tt allele:

phenotype

genotype

dominant

recessive

An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

hidden allele

dominant allele

recessive allele

present allele

10.

What is the genotype for this organism?
(E= 3 eyes, e= 1 eye)

EE or Ee

11.

Dominant alleles are represented by a:

Male gene

lowercase letter

recessive trait

capital letter

12.

Having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

homozygous

hetrozygous

protein

Owendalian

13.

How can two parents with brown eyes have a child with blue eyes?

The parents both have recessive genes for blue eyes.

The child was born at sea on a cruise ship

Eye color in humans is not an inherited trait

The child was deprived of oxygen during its birth

The mom ate a ton of blue raspberry Snowcones during pregnancy

14.

What was the prevailing theory of genetics before Mendel did his experiments?

All traits were random for each generation.

All traits skipped a generation

All traits were decided by God

All of a child's traits were a blending of the their parents' traits

15.

Who is the father of genetics?

Charles Darwin

Gregor Mendel

Dimitri Mendeleev

Hans Krebs

16.

The scientific study of heredity is ____.

Genetics

Punnett squares

Inheritance

Biology

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Ch 5.1 Mendel and His Peas

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 34mins

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