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Genotype & Phenotype

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do you classify the following genotype : AA

a)

Homozygous Dominant

b)

Homozygous Recessive

c)

Heterozygous

2.

If Purple Flowers (P) are dominant over white flowers (p), what would the phenotype be for a Pp genotype?

a)

Purple flowers

b)

White flowers

c)

Not enough information

3.

If Brown eyes (B) are dominant over blue eyes (b), what would the phenotype be for a bb genotype?

a)

Brown Eyes

b)

Blue Eyes

c)

Green Eyes

4.

If straight hair (S) is dominant to curly hair (s) - what are the possible Genotype(s) for curly hair?

a)

ss only

b)

SS only

c)

SS or Ss

d)

Curly Hair

e)

Straight Hair

5.
The physical appearance of a trait is known as the-
a)
genotype
b)
phenotype
c)
characteristics
d)
intelligence
6.
Mark is heterozygous. If B is for brown hair, and b is for blonde hair, what is Mark's phenotype?
a)
Brown Hair
b)
Blonde Hair
c)
Brown and Blonde Hair
d)
Black Hair
7.
Alternative forms of a gene are called
a)
Alleles
b)
Homozygous
c)
DNA
d)
Genetics
8.
The allele combinations
a)
genetics
b)
mitosis
c)
genotype
d)
phenotype
9.
incomplete dominance means that there traits are,,,
a)
expressed equally
b)
dominant
c)
recessive
d)
blended
10.

The alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are both expressed with no blending.

a)

codominance

b)

incomplete dominance

c)

polygenic

d)

multiple alleles

11.

Which of these Punnett squares represents a cross between a homozygous dominant parent and a heterozygous parent?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.
This is an example of ___________?
a)
Incomplete dominance
b)
Co-Dominance
13.

The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism's chromosomes.

a)

Epigenome

b)

DNA

c)

genome

d)

genetic markers

14.

Protein molecules around which DNA is tightly coiled in chromatin

a)

histones

b)

casein

c)

nucleosome

d)

chromosome

15.

Epigenetics refers to changes in:

a)

DNA sequence

b)

Gene structure

c)

Gene expression

d)

DNA frequency

16.

All genes are expressed in every cell

a)

True

b)

False

17.

A chemical modification of DNA that does not affect the nucleotide sequence of a gene but makes that gene less likely to be expressed.

a)

activators

b)

methylation

c)

acetylation

d)

proteins