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Chapters 4 and 5 Genetics

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 48mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?
a)
Pea Plant
b)
Pigeons
c)
Pear trees
d)
Photosynthesis
2.
What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?
a)
Genesis
b)
Elective traits
c)
Alleles
d)
Quadrants
3.
What do we call the result of the genotype (for example, the color of the peas)?
a)
Visible traits
b)
Physiotrait
c)
Genotype 2
d)
Phenotype
4.
What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?
a)
Punnett square
b)
Venn diagram
c)
Golden ratio
d)
Fibonacci sequence
5.

Who is Gregor Mendel

a)

an Austrian Monk from the mid 1800s who contributed to the study of Genetics

b)

The scientist who discovered the structure of DNA

c)

a British scientist who discovered penicillin

d)

The scientist who used X-Ray Crystallography to shed light on the structure of DNA

6.

What specifically about Pea Plants did Mendel Study?

a)

Color of Pea Flower

b)

Colors of individual Peas

c)

Texture of Peas

d)

All of these

7.

Why were pea plants perfect a study on Heredity?

a)

Pea plants are complex

b)

They were easy to study

c)

One gene controlled one trait. (i.e. it was simple)

d)

One gene was controlled by multiple traits

8.

What did Mendel notice?

a)

Most pea flowers were tall, and some were purple.

b)

Most of the pea flowers were white, but a few were purple.

c)

Most of the pea flowers were purple, but a few were white.

d)

Most pea flowers were short, and some were white.

9.

Which of the following is a Homozygous Dominant Genotype?

a)

Yy

b)

XX

c)

zz

10.

Which of the following is a homozygous recessive genotype?

a)

HH

b)

dd

c)

Aa

11.

Which of the following is a heterozygous genotype?

a)

Gg

b)

UU

c)

pp

12.

In a Punnett Square, 1 box is equal to 25%. How much are 3 boxes equal to?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

13.

Fill in the Yellow Box

a)

AA

b)

Aa

c)

aa

14.

Fill in the Yellow Box

a)

Bb

b)

BB

c)

bb

15.

How chance the offspring born from this cross will have a homozygous dominant genotype?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

16.

The punnett square is used to tell the color of a frogs skin. "G" means green skin and "g" means brown skin. What is the chance the baby frogs will have brown skin?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

100%

17.

What is the mother's genotype?

a)

DD

b)

Dd

c)

dd

18.
Dominant or recessive?
tt
a)
Dominant 
b)
Recessive
19.
Dominant or recessive?
Dd
a)
Dominant
b)
recessive
c)
neither
d)
homozygous
20.
Emily has brown hair. Which is most likely a true statement about Emily?
a)
Emily’s favorite color is brown.
b)
Emily has a parent with brown hair.
c)
Emily’s older brother has brown hair. 
21.
What should students use to identify the percent chance of a trait being passed down from a parent to its offspring?
a)
a graph
b)
a flow chart
c)
a data table
d)
a Punnett square
22.
Which statement best supports why many offspring look similar to their parents?
a)
Offspring inherit characteristics from one parent.
b)
Offspring inherit characteristics from both parents.
c)
Parents choose which characteristics to pass on to their offspring.
d)
Parents choose to change their appearance to match that of their offspring.
23.
Bob is a tall, slender young man with red hair and blue eyes. Which couple would most likely be Bob’s parents?
a)
a slender, red-haired father and a tall, blue-eyed mother
b)
a tall green-eyed father with long brown hair and a short, brown-haired mother
c)
a short, green-eyed, black-haired father and a tall, brown haired, brown-eyed mother
d)
a short, plump brown-haired father with freckles and a short, blue-eyed red-haired mother
24.
What are the possible combinations of a pea plant with the alleles PP and a male pea plant with the alleles pp.
P= purple
p= white
a)
all Pp
b)
all PP
c)
Pp,PP,Pp,PP
d)
all pp
25.
When the allele combination is a dominate and a recessive trait together which trait will be seen?
a)
Dominate
b)
Recessive
c)
none
d)
both
26.
Homozygous is when...
a)
the alleles are the same
b)
the alleles are different
c)
the alleles are absent
d)
the alleles are present
27.
B = brown fur  b = white fur
In the punnett square, what is the probability for white fur? 
a)
0%
b)
25%
c)
50%
d)
75%
28.
Aa is
a)
homozygous (purebred)
b)
heterozygous (hybrid)
29.
What is a phenotype?
a)
The expression of a trait; physical appearance.
b)
refers to the genetic makeup of an individual
c)
An organism that has the same genes for a trait (ex. TT or tt)
d)
the passing of traits from parent to offspring
30.

This means different alleles.

a)
Dominant
b)
Recessive
c)
Homozygous
d)
Heterozygous
31.
Homozygous or heterozygous?
BB
a)
Homozygous
b)
Heterozygous
32.
Which of the following is a phenotype?
a)
Aa
b)
red hair
c)
heterozygous
d)
DNA
33.

If this pedigree shows a recessive disorder, what MUST the genotype of individual 4 be?

a)

HH

b)

Hh

c)

hh

34.
There are no carriers for Huntington's Disease- you either have it or you don't. Is Huntington's disease caused by a dominant or recessive trait?
a)
Dominant
b)
Recessive
35.
Huntington's Disease is a dominant trait.
What is the correct genotype for individual I-2?
a)
HH
b)
Hh
c)
hh
d)
H_
36.
Does this pedigree show a dominant or recessive trait?
a)
Dominant
b)
Recessive
37.
What is the genotype of the mother?
a)
BB
b)
bb
c)
Bb
d)
BB or Bb
38.
What is the genotype of the father?
a)
AA
b)
aa
c)
Aa
d)
AA or aa
39.

Generation 2 individuals 5 and 6 are

a)

brother and sister.

b)

cousins.

c)

married.

d)

not related.

40.

How many alleles does a person carry for a trait?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

41.

How many alleles does a child get from each parent for a trait?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

42.

Aa, DD, Bb, yy are all examples of ---

a)

genotypes.

b)

phenotypes.

43.

In a heterozygous genotype, the _____ allele takes over in the phenotype.

a)

recessive

b)

dominant

c)

both

44.

What you see, or the physical appearance of an organism, is called the ---

a)

genotype.

b)

phenotype.

45.

In a pedigree, which shape represents a male?

a)

circle

b)

square

46.

Which gender has an X and a Y chromosome?

a)

male

b)

female

47.

On a pedigree, this symbol represents a ---

a)

not affected female.

b)

not affected male.

c)

affected male.

d)

affected female.

48.

On a pedigree, this symbol represents a ----

a)

not affected male.

b)

not affected female.

c)

affected male.

d)

affected female.

49.

How many individuals are there in the 3rd generation?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

6

50.

How are individuals III-2 and II-4 related?

a)

Brother and sister

b)

Dad and daughter

c)

Uncle and niece

d)

Grandfather and granddaughter

51.

Known as the father of modern genetics:

a)

Watson

b)

Crick

c)

Darwin

d)

Mendel

52.

Why did Mendel pick pea plant to study

a)

He used pea plant because grow everywhere

b)

He used pea plant because all monastery growth peas

c)

He used pea plant because they are resistance to plages.

d)

He used pea plant because the grow very easily

53.

When Gregor Mendel cross fertilized pea plants that had purple flowers with pea plants that had white flowers, the white flower trait disappeared in the offspring. This is because the purple flower trait is ___________________ over the white flower trait.

a)

dominant

b)

recessive

c)

masked

d)

hidden

54.

What did Mendel use to represent the "factors" pass on by parent to offspring?

a)

Capital and lower case letters

b)

Letters and numbers

c)

Large and small numbers

d)

A color scale

55.

In the Parent (or P) generation, Gregor Mendel cross fertilized pea plants that had purple flowers with pea plants that produced white flowers. In the F1 generation, all the plants produced purple flowers, but Mendel predicted that the white flower factor was still present hidden on the flowers. Mendel used the letters Pp to represent the factors that the F1 generation plants had for flower color. Which term is used to describe the genotype Pp?

a)

Homozygous dominant

b)

Heterozygous

c)

Homozygous recessive

d)

Heterogeneous mixture

56.

What does Homozygous dominant mean?

a)

That both alleles for a gene are recessive, so the recessive form of the trait will be expressed.

b)

That one allele is dominant and one is recessive, which mean the dominant trait will be expressed in the offspring.

c)

That both alleles for a gene are dominant, so the dominant form of the trait will be expressed.

d)

That no alleles are present.

57.

The hybrid seeds from the F1 generation pea plants were collected, planted, and then allowed to self-fertilize. Mendel called this generation the F2 generation. What ratio of traits did Mendel observe in the F2 generation?

a)

1:1

b)

2:1

c)

3:1

d)

4:1

58.

Which word means to be masked or hidden?

a)

dominant

b)

recessive

59.

In pea plants, tall height is dominant to short height. Can a short pea plant ever be a hybrid? Why?

a)

Yes because the genotype of a short pea plant is Tt.

b)

No because since short is recessive, the genotype must be tt.

c)

No because since short is recessive, the genotypes must be TT.

d)

Yes because the genotype of a short pea plant must be heterozygous for the offspring to get the trait.

60.

In Mendel's cross of tall and short pea plants, what percentage of the F1 generation always showed the dominant trait?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

61.

What proportion of plants in the F2 generation had a trait that was absent in the F1 generation?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

62.

Mendel's P generation

a)

purebred

b)

hybrid

63.

Mendel's F1 generation

a)

purebred

b)

hybrid