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WorksheetsHeredity Practice
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 26mins
Who was the Austrian monk that experimented on pea plants and is called the "father of genetics"? (a)
The genotype for a yellow plant is...
Every living thing has genetic information stored in the form of
Ribosomes
DNA
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Sections of DNA that have instructions for a specific trait are called _______________
Blueprints
Genes
Heterozygous
Fragments
In science, mutations are
The reason the X-Men exist
Genetically engineered creatures that you fight in the Hunger Games
A change in the DNA of an organism that produces new traits
Always helpful for survival
Traits that are passed from parents to offspring are always
Recessive
Inherited
Dominant
Heterozygous
The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next is known as
Alleles
Ancestry
Heredity
Variation
What does DNA determine?
traits of living things
traits of nonliving things
organization of living things
Did Not Attempt
Heredity is....
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
What I get from grandpa when he goes back to King Kai
A hidden trait
The strongest trait
A dominant trait is....
A trait that always comes out
A trait that is always hidden
A mutation
An angry gene
genetics is the study of
animal genes
how blue-eyed babies are born
family characteristics
how traits are passed on
Select the recessive traits:
Brown Hair (HH)
Brown Eyes (Bb)
Blue Eyes (bb)
Dimples (Dd)
No Hitchhikers Thumb (hh)
Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________
predators to prey
water to rain
parents to offspring
offspring to parents
George has blonde hair. This is an example of an ________
Acquired trait
Inherited trait
If a child has red hair, they inherited a certain _______________ from their parents.
ratio
trait
probability
ability
