WorksheetsGenetics Part 1 Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called
Gene splicing
Heredity
Genome
True breeding
An organism that has the genotype Bb is
Homozygous dominant
Heterozygous
Homozygous recessive
None of the above
Which of the following scientist gave the principles of inheritance?
(a) Mendel
(b) Griffin
(c) Johanssen
(d) Watson and Crick
An organism that has the genotype Bb is
Homozygous dominant
Heterozygous
Homozygous recessive
None of the above
A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross
Karyotype
Monohybrid cross
Punnett Square
Dihybrid cross
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait:
Monohybrid
Dihybrid
Homozygous
Heterozygous
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait:
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Dihybrid
Monohybrid
An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
Dominant
Recessive
Homozygous
Heterozygous
"Father of Genetics" and Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas
Charles Darwin
Watson and Crick
Gregor Mendel
Edward Punnett
Made up of segments of DNA and are passed from parent to child.
Protein
Trait
Genome
Gene
The membrane-enclosed organelle within a cell that contains the chromosomes
Ribosome
Nucleus
DNA
Mitochondria
Form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms.
Chromosome
Nucleus
DNA
Gene
An organism's observable characteristics.
Traits
Gene
phenotype
genotype
Structure found inside the nucleus that contains DNA. Each cell contains 23 pairs.
Chromosomes
Deoxyribose Sugar
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Trait
Brown Hair, blue eyes, and free earlobes are all examples of
Genotype
Phenotype
Neither
genotype
one version of a gene masks or overrides the effect of the other type
one version of a gene is masked in the presence of a dominant gene
the observable traits of an individual organism
the genetic composition of an individual organism
phenotype
the genetic composition of an individual organism
the observable characteristics of an individual organism
one variant of a gene masks or overrides the effect of another variant
one variant of a gene is masked by the dominant variant
DNA
an animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids
a molecule that contains the blueprint of all genetic information for every trait in our bodies
graphical representation of the possible genotypes of an offspring arising from a particular cross
