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Inheritable Genetic Variations

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The process in sexual reproduction where chromosomes can swap sections during cell division?

a)

recombination

b)

meiosis

c)

mitosis

d)

asexual reproduction

2.

Environmental factors can cause this to occur in genes?

a)

mutations

b)

replication

c)

duplication

d)

elimination

3.

The variation and distribution of traits observed depends on two factors?

a)

physical and environmental

b)

physical and genetic

c)

genetic and environmental

d)

environmental and chemical

4.

This process creates new genetic combinations and therefore more genetic variation?

a)

phosphorylation

b)

mitosis

c)

transcription

d)

cell division (meiosis)

5.

What are three pieces of evidence that inheritable genetic variations result from?

a)

new genetic combinations through meiosis, errors in DNA replication, and mutations from environmental factors

b)

errors in DNA replication, genetic combinations through mitosis, and mutations from chemical exposure

c)

mutations from bacteria, errors in DNA translation, and genetic combinations through phosphorylation

d)

errors in DNA transcription and new genetic combinations from DNA methylation

6.

Insertions or deletions of DNA nucleotides can cause this?

a)

transcriptions errors

b)

meiosis

c)

replication errors

d)

cell division

7.

What are among some specific environmental factors that alter genetic variations?

a)

drugs, radiation, and bacteria

b)

oxygen, sugar, and carbon dioxide

c)

fertilizer and antibiotics

d)

chemicals, sunscreen, and aloe

8.

What cells does meiosis occur in?

a)

egg and sperm (sex cells)

b)

kidney cells

c)

somatic cells (body cells)

d)

skin cells

9.

Process where double-stranded DNA molecule is copied to produce two identical DNA molecules?

a)

DNA transcription

b)

DNA translation

c)

DNA methylation

d)

DNA replication

10.

Environmental factors can cause mutations here?

a)

genome

b)

chromatids

c)

genes

d)

centrosome

11.

The mutations from environmental factors can be these two things?

a)

inviable and not inherited

b)

viable and inherited

c)

inviable and inherited

d)

viable

12.

Replication errors in DNA can result from these two specific changes to DNA nucleotides?

a)

substitution and deletion

b)

transversion and insertion

c)

insertion and deletion

d)

substitution and inversion

13.

When nucleotides are added to a genetic sequence?

a)

deletion

b)

insertion

c)

substitution

d)

conversion

14.

When DNA nucleotides are removed from a genetic sequence?

a)

translocation

b)

insertion

c)

elimination

d)

deletion

15.

Environmental factors can affect this of traits, or how they are portrayed?

a)

expression

b)

observation

c)

variation

d)

distribution