Genetics Vocabulary Quiz
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Dominant alleles are written using
A. capital letters
B. lowercase letters
C. both types of letters
D. neither
Aa is an example of
A. homozygous dominant
B. homozygous recessive
C. heterozygous
D. none of these
If a pea plant were homozygous recessive for height, what is its genotype?
A. TT
B. Tt
C. tt
D. tT
What is an inherited characteristic of an organism called?
A. trait
B. genetics
C. homozygous
D. recessive
What is a gene for a particular trait called?
A. allele
B. chromosomes
C. phenotype
D. genotype
What is the term for the presence of a dominant allele that masks the presence of a recessive allele in the phenotype?
A. dominant
B. genotype
C. trait
D. recessive
Alternative forms of genes for a particular characteristic are called
A. Alleles
B. Genotypes
C. Phenotypes
D. Chromosomes
Heredity is the passing of traits from ________ to _________.
A. predator; prey
B. parents; offspring
C. one cell; another cell
D. one species; another species
What does the notation Tt mean to a geneticist?
A. two dominant alleles
B. at least one recessive alleles
C. two recessive alleles
D. one dominant and one recessive allele
bb is an example of
A. homozygous dominant
B. homozygous recessive
C. heterozygous
D. none of these
What is the term for an allele that masks the presence of a recessive allele in the phenotype?
A. dominant
B. genotype
C. trait
D. recessive
What is the term for the observable trait of an individual?
A. phenotype
B. genetics
C. homozygous
D. recessive
A red four o’clock flower is crossed with a white four o’clock flower, and all the offspring are pink. What law of inheritance does this follow?
A. Dominance
B. Segregation
C. Incomplete dominance
D. Codominance
What is the study of how traits are passed on?
A. genetics
B. chromosomes
C. phenotype
D. genotype
What is the term for having two different copies of an allele?
A. heterozygous
B. genetics
C. homozygous
D. recessive
What type of inheritance pattern does the diagram represent?
A. Incomplete Dominance
B. Codominance
C. Multiple Alleles
D. Polygenic Inheritance
Which of the following refers to the expression of traits by alleles?
A. Phenotype
B. Genotype
C. Prototype
Recessive alleles are written using
A. capital letters
B. lowercase letters
C. both types of letters
D. neither
What is the term for the genetic makeup of an individual?
A. genotype
B. genetics
C. homozygous
D. recessive
What is the term for having two copies of the same allele?
A. homozygous
B. genetics
C. heterozygous
D. recessive
If the image were real, it would represent what type of inheritance pattern?
A. Incomplete Dominance
B. Codominance
C. Multiple Alleles
D. Polygenic Inheritance
What is an allele that is masked in the phenotype by the presence of a dominant allele called?
A. recessive
B. genetics
C. homozygous
D. dominant
What are long rod-shaped bodies inside a cell’s nucleus called?
A. chromosomes
B. gene
C. phenotype
D. genotype
What type of inheritance pattern does the ABO blood group represent?
A. Incomplete Dominance
B. Codominance
C. Multiple Alleles
D. Polygenic Inheritance
Which of the following refers to the pair of alleles?
A. Phenotype
B. Genotype
C. Prototype
D. Bialleleism
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