WorksheetsUnderstanding Heredity and Genetics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is heredity?
The study of plants
Passing genetic material from parent to offspring
Building new structures
None of the above.
Genetics is the study of how certain ______ are passed from parent to offspring.
foods
traits
habits
languages
What is a trait?
A) A type of food
B) A distinguishing quality or characteristic
C) A type of plant
D) A language.
A trait is passed from the parent, only one copy of a trait is passed by each parent. True or False?
True
False
The combination of traits from each parent controls your ______.
height
traits
language
diet
What is phenotype?
The way a trait is shown/seen
A type of gene
A language
A type of food
Genotype is the way two traits, one from each parent, pair up to cause a trait. True or False?
True
False
What is the basic unit of genetics?
Cell
Gene
Protein
Carbohydrate
How many genes are there approximately?
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
Each gene comes one from each parent for a trait. True or False?
True
False
