WorksheetsGenetics
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 28mins
Which is the best example of traits being transfer from parent to offspring
Daughter has curly hair like her mother
Son likes the same foods as his father
Son can speak Spanish like his parents
Daughter has long hair like her mother
Why do these kittens not look alike even though they have the same parents?
Some of the kittens only received genetic material from their mother.
Each kitten received a variation of genetic material from the parents.
The kittens were cloned using genetic material from one parent.
The kittens received twice the genetic material from both parents.
The passing of genetic instructions from generation to generation is know as...
Chromosomes
Genetics
Heredity
Traits
Which of the following is a disadvantage of asexual reproduction?
Takes longer to reproduce offspring
Less able to survive environmental changes
Produces fewer offspring
Produces offspring very quickly
Which of the following is the best example of inheritance?
Similar animals found on different islands
Mammoths found frozen in the Artic
A monkey using a stick to get ants out of a tree stump
two short haired cats producing a litter of short haired kittens
Yeast cells reproduce by budding. Which of the following best describes a yeast bud?
The yeast bud has half of the DNA from its parent
The yeast bud will have different traits than its parent
The yeast bud is uniform to the parent
The yeast bud is diverse from its parent
Which of the following is NOT an example of heredity?
A white rose is crossed with a red rose to produce a plant with pink roses
A daughter is slightly taller than her mother
Yeast producing asexually to create uniform offspring
Mom showing her daughter how to cook
Which of the following statements is incorrect about sexual reproduction?
Offspring have a better chance to survive environmental changes
Creates offspring that is uniform
Requires two different parents
Offspring will be diverse
What components of a cell determine the traits an organism receives?
Genes, cell membrane, chromosomes
Vacuole, Chromosomes, genes
Chromosomes, genes, nucleus
Chromosomes, cell membrane, vacuole
Which of the following will produce uniform offspring?
A female cat collects sperm from a male cat
A hydra produces a bud which breaks off
The pollen from one tree pollenate another tree
Marlin fertilized the eggs of Coral and they got Nemo
Which organelle stores genetic information?
Organelle A
Organelle F
Organelle G
Organelle J
Which of the following is an advantage of asexual reproduction?
Offspring are better able to survive environmental changes
Can produce a lot of offspring in a short amount of time
Offspring is genetically diverse
Lacks genetic variation
Which of the following is an inherited trait of an offspring?
Ability to write
Dimples
Scar
Long hair
What is the correct order of genetic material found in a cell.
Nucleus, chromosomes, genes
Genes, nucleus, chromosomes
Chromosomes, nucleus, genes
Nucleus, gene, chromosomes
Which of the following traits would be passed down through a persons chromosomes?
Weight
Speaking a language
Height
Short hair
Characteristics passed down from parents to offspring are considered to be -
Learned traits
Acquired traits
Recessive traits
Inherited traits
Sexual reproduction -
results in genetic variation in the offspring
produces offspring that are identical to the parent
decreases the chances of survival of the species
has genetic material being passed down by only one parent
What is an advantage of offspring produced from sexual reproduction?
Offspring may not survive environmental changes
Traits are consistently unchanged from generation to generation
Offspring could have better traits than their parents
Offspring are smaller and less active than their parents
Which of the following most correctly describes heredity?
passing of cooking skills from mother to daughter
passing of genetic instruction from mother to son
passing of traits from mother to father
passing of knowledge from sibling to sibling
Amoeba reproduce asexually through binary fission. Which of the following statements best describes the new amoeba cell?
Contains half of the genetic material from the parent
Is a different species than the parent
Received half of its genetic material from each parent
Is genetically identical to its parent
Which of the following is the best example of heredity?
A young girl enjoys eating apples like her mother
A man becomes a lawyer like his uncle
A child's brown eyes matches his father's eyes
The children of the same family each like dogs
What would be a possible disadvantage of asexual reproduction?
Ability to reproduce without a mate
Results in low genetic variation of the species
Allows for more genetic variation in the offspring
Takes less time to produce offspring
What parts of a cell are most likely involved with inherited traits?
Chromosomes, genes, vacuoles
Chromosomes, genes, nucleus
DNA, genes, mitochondria
DNA, nucleus, cell membrane
Compared with the genetic material of the original cell, each of the two new cells contains -
half of the genetic material of the parent cell
twice as much genetic material as the parent cell
genetic material that is identical to the parent cell
new genetic material that is different from the parent cell
Which of the following components are most involved in determining an organism's traits?
Chromosomes
Cytoplasm
Mitochondria
Chloroplast
Which of the following would result in the most diverse offspring?
bees bringing pollen from the flower of one plant to the flower of another plant
an orchid with a flower structure that forces self-pollination
planting a cutting from a potato to grow a new potato plant
a plant that grows a bud that looks exactly alike the parent
Which of the cell components is least likely to affect the visible traits of an organism?
Mitochondria
Nucleus
Genes
Chromosomes
Which statement reflects a way in which asexual reproduction is beneficial? Select all that apply.
It results in genetic variation.
It requires a lot of time and energy.
Organisms can reproduce without a mate.
It is a much quicker process.
Which statement describes why genetic variation is beneficial to populations of organisms?
individuals look different from one another
only one parent is needed to produce offspring
populations of the organism increase more rapidly
species can better survive environmental changes
Which of the following types of reproduction would result in the greatest genetic diversity in the offspring?
Which of the following are advantages of asexual reproduction? Select all that apply.
Overcrowding possible
Inability to adapt to new environments
Quicker process
Produces more offspring
Which of the following are advantages of sexual reproduction? Select all that apply.
Requires two parents
Slower process
Greater genetic variation
Removes bad genes
