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Inheritance 1

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does genotype mean?

a)

The visible characteristics in an organism, controlled by the genotype, e.g. a tall plant or a dwarf plant.

b)

The genetic make-up of an organism, e.g. Tt, where T and t are alleles of a gene.

2.

The characteristics visible in an organism, controlled by the genotype, e.g. a tall plant or a dwarf plant.

a)

Phenotype

b)

Genotype

c)

Homozygous

d)

Heterozygous

3.
Dominant alleles are represented by a(n)
a)
phenotype
b)
lower case letter
c)
upper case letter
d)
punnett square 
4.
Round (R) seeds are dominant to wrinkled (r) seeds.
What is the genotype for a homozygous dominant offspring?
a)
RR
b)
Rr
c)
rr
5.
What is the percentage of homozygous recessive offspring?
a)
0%
b)
25%
c)
50%
d)
75%
6.

What percentage of the possible offspring will be hybrids (heterozygous)?

a)
25%
b)
50%
c)
75%
d)
100%
7.

In budgies, green (G) is dominant to blue (g). A homozygous green budgie is mated with a heterozygous budgie. What is the genotype ratio of the offspring?

a)

100% GG

b)

50% GG

50% Gg

c)

100% gg

d)

75% Gg

25% GG

8.

In a tomato plant, tall is dominant over short, and hairy stems is dominant over non-hairy stems. A pure breeding tall hairy stemmed plant is crossed with a short heterozygous hairy stem. What is the phenotype ratio of the offspring?

a)

75% Tall non-hairy

25% Short hairy

b)

50% Tall hairy

50% Short hairy

c)

50% Tall non-hairy

50% Short non-hairy

d)

100% Tall hairy

9.

A red flower and white flower mate to form a pink flowered offspring. This is an example of

a)

Dominant trait

b)

Recessive trait

c)

Codominance

d)

Incomplete dominance

10.

A woman with Type O blood and a man who is Type AB are expecting a child. What are the possible blood types of the child?

a)

A

b)

AB

c)

B

d)

O

11.

A round pea (WW) crosses with a wrinkled pea (ww).

The phenotype of the F1 generation is:

a)

100% round

b)

100% wrinkled

c)

50% round

50% wrinkled

d)

75% round

25% wrinkled

12.

Sex-linked inheritance refers to inheritance of traits located on the X and Y chromosome

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Identify which type of sex-linked example this image represents.

a)

X-linked dominant

b)

X-linked recessive

c)

Y-linked

d)

sex-limited

14.

Identify the features of Y-linked traits

a)

Located on the X chromosome

b)

Appears in all daughters of males who exhibit the trait

c)

Only occur in males

d)

Not passed to daughters

e)

Appears in all sons of males who exhibit the trait

15.

In guinea pigs, the smooth coat (S) is dominant over the rough coat (s). If an SS guinea pig is crossed with an ss guinea pig, what ratio of guinea pigs would you predict in the offspring?

a)

All offspring will be Ss and have smooth coats.

b)

75% will have smooth coats, and 25% will have rough coats.

c)

All offspring will be Ss and have rough coats.

d)

Half the offspring will be SS, and the other half will be ss.

16.

In a dihybrid cross involving pea plants heterozygous for two traits (RrYy x RrYy), how many of the offspring will be phenotypically green? Round (R) is dominant over wrinkled (r), and Yellow (Y) is dominant over green (y).

a)

12/16

b)

9/16

c)

4/16

d)

3/16

17.

If an individual has the dominant phenotype, is the genotype always known?

a)

yes

b)

no

18.
In snapdragons, Tallness (T) is dominant to dwarfness (t). In a cross between two plants that are homozygous for the recessive allele, the percent of offspring expected to exhibit tallness is
a)
 25%
b)
 75%
c)
100%
d)
0%