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Patterns of inheritance of traits

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Scientists who rediscovered the Mendel's laws:

a)

Hugo de Vries, M. Correns, Gustav Tschermak

b)

O. Avery, K. Macleod, M. McCarthy

c)

G. Beadle and Tatum

d)

J.Watson and F.Crick

2.

Determine the initial form of  parental individuals in the dihybrid cross:

a)

AaBb x AaBb

b)

Aabb x aabb

c)

AABB x aabb

d)

AABB x Aabb

3.

   What the law of inheritance manifested in the first generation of dihybrid cross?

a)

the law of purity of gametes

b)

the law of independent assortment

c)

the law of independent combination of traits

d)

the law of uniformity of hybrids in the first generation

4.

How many types of gamete will be formed in diheterozygote?



(a)  

5.

What is the polymery?

 

a)

genes encoding different manifestations of the trait

b)

genes which give a new trait in a complementary combination

c)

the causality of a particular trait of several pairs of nonallelic genes which have the same effect

d)

allele genes which do not change each other

6.

  Determine the concept of «phenotype»:

a)

the set of all external and internal traits and properties of the organism determined by the genotype and environmental conditions

b)

the set of all hereditary traits and properties  in a diploid set of chromosomes

c)

the set of all external and internal traits and properties of the organism determined by environmental conditions

d)

the set of all hereditary traits and properties in the haploid set of chromosomes

7.

  What formula is for the types of gametes?

a)

(3+1)n

b)

3:1

c)

2n

d)

9:3:3:1

8.

What splitting of the phenotype observed in the second generation of monohybrid crossing?

a)

1:1

b)

3:1

c)

9:1

d)

9:3:3:1

9.

An example of a non-allelic gene interaction

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Codominance

c)

Epistasis

d)

Multiple Alleles

10.

How can you establish whether an organism with a trait is heterozygous or homozygous? What type of crossing is necessary to conduct?

a)

crossing with heterozygote

b)

reciprocal

c)

crossing with homozygote which has dominant trait

d)

analyzing crossing of an individual with homozygous by recessive trait

11.

How many types of gamete forms monoheterozygote?



(a)  

12.

   What is the expressivity?

a)

  it is multiple mutations of the same locus in the chromosome

b)

it is the degree of trait expression in the phenotype

c)

it is the genetic composition of the individual

d)

It is the observable traits of the individual, produced by the interaction of the genes and the environment

13.

What kind of traits can be alternative?

a)

yellow seed and white flower

b)

yellow seed and green seed

c)

green seed and wrinkled form of the seed

d)

large stature and purple color of the flower

14.

How many types of gamete form in triheterozygote?



(a)  

15.

When a pure breeding brown cat is mated to a pure breeding white cat, all the kittens born are brown.

What results would you expect when an F1 brown kitten is mated with a pure breeding white cat

a)

100 % white kittens

b)

100 % brown kittens

c)

50 % brown kittens

50 % white kittens

d)

75 % brown kittens

25 % white kittens

16.

When a pure breeding brown cat is mated to a pure breeding white cat, all the kittens born are brown.

What results would you expect when an F1 brown kitten is mated

with another F1 brown kitten

a)

100 % white kittens

b)

100 % brown kittens

c)

50 % brown kittens

50 % white kittens

d)

75 % brown kittens

25 % white kittens

17.

When a pure breeding brown cat is mated to a pure breeding white cat, all the kittens born are brown.

What results would you expect when an F1 brown kitten is mated

with a pure breeding brown cat

a)

100 % white kittens

b)

100 % brown kittens

c)

50 % brown kittens

50 % white kittens

d)

75 % brown kittens

25 % white kittens

18.

In man brown eyes (B) are dominant over blue (b).

A brown eyed man married to a brown eyed woman

has a blue eyed child.

What would be the genotypes of the parents?

a)

BB (man)

BB (woman)

b)

Bb (man)

BB (woman)

c)

Bb (man)

Bb (woman)

d)

BB (man)

bb (woman)

19.

Codominant traits

a)

one that manifests only when the gene is in a homozygous state

b)

both alleles in a heterozygous pair are expressed

c)

one that manifests itself even when an allele is in a heterozygous state

d)

when the mutant allele is located on the X chromosome, the disease will

generally be expressed in males

20.

Dominant

a)

one that manifests only when the gene is in a homozygous state

b)

both alleles in a heterozygous pair are expressed

c)

one that manifests itself even when an allele is in a heterozygous state

d)

when the mutant allele is located on the X chromosome, the disease will

generally be expressed in males

21.

A woman with 0 (I) bllod group has born a child with AB blood group. This woman’s husband has A blood group. What genetic interaction explains this phenomenon?

a)

Codominance

b)

Recessive epistasis

c)

Polymery

d)

Incomplete dominance

22.

Pigmentation intensity of human skin is controlled by a few independent dominant genes. It is known that pigmentation is the more intensive, the bigger quantity of these genes. What is the type of interaction between these genes?

a)

Polymery

b)

Pleiotropy

c)

Codominancy

d)

Epistasis