WorksheetsLesson 2: Understanding Inheritance
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What controls traits?
Genes
Environment
Diet
Exercise
Inside each cell is a nucleus that contains threadlike structures called _______.
chromosomes
mitochondria
ribosomes
lysosomes
Mendel's factors are parts of chromosomes, and each cell in offspring contains chromosomes from both _______.
parents
friends
siblings
neighbors
A(n) _______ is a section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.
gene
chromosome
allele
nucleotide
The different forms of a gene are called _______.
alleles
chromosomes
proteins
nucleotides
Geneticists refer to how a trait appears, or is expressed, as the trait’s _______.
phenotype
genotype
allele
chromosome
The two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait are called the trait’s _______.
genotype
phenotype
chromosome
allele
In genetics, uppercase letters represent dominant alleles, and lowercase letters represent recessive alleles. True or False?
True
False
When two alleles of a gene are the same, its genotype is _______.
homozygous
heterozygous
dominant
recessive
If two alleles of a gene are different, its genotype is _______.
heterozygous
homozygous
dominant
recessive
