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Inheritance Genetics

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

Who is the Father of Genetics?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Robert Hooke

2.

The Father of Genetics formulated several basic genetics laws. What are the laws?

a)

Law of Segregation

b)

Law of Dominance

c)

Law of Independent Assortment

d)

All the three laws

3.

What does genotype mean?

a)

Genetic code of the individual

b)

Physical appearance of individuals

c)

Observable characteristics that can be measured in the laboratory

4.

The colour of person’s eyes refer to

a)

phenotype

b)

genotype

5.

What does phenotype mean?

a)

An organism’s allele genetic makeup

b)

Allele combinations

c)

Physical appearance of individual

6.

Law of segregation is when

a)

Alleles separate individually from each other

b)

Genes for each trait separate individually from each other

c)

One allele masks the presence of another allele

d)

Homologous chromosomes pair with other genes

7.

Alleles for different genes separate randomly from one another

a)

Law of segregation

b)

Law of independent assortment

c)

Law of dominance

8.

Which of the following are the examples of pleiotropy?

a)

Eye colour

b)

Marfan Sydrome

9.

Why human features like height, eye colour, and hair colour come in lots of slightly different forms?

a)

Multiple alleles at a single locus

b)

One gene being masked by another

c)

The interaction of multiple genes

d)

Two dominant alleles on a gene

10.

The dark point on top of this Himalayan Rabbit is caused by a gene that codes for a temperature-sensitive enzyme.

a)

True

b)

False