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Genetics Vocabulary Quiz


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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 are long rod-shaped bodies inside a cell’s nucleus called?

A. chromosomes

B. gene

C. phenotype

D. genotype


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


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 is the term for the genetic makeup of an individual?

A. genotype

B. genetics

C. homozygous

D. recessive


Recessive alleles are written using

A. capital letters

B. lowercase letters

C. both types of letters

D. neither


What is an inherited characteristic of an organism called?

A. trait

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 term for the observable trait of an individual?

A. phenotype

B. genetics

C. homozygous

D. recessive


Dominant alleles are written using

A. capital letters

B. lowercase letters

C. both types of letters

D. neither


bb 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


Aa is an example of
A. homozygous dominant
B. homozygous recessive
C. heterozygous
D. none of these


What is the study of how traits are passed on?

A. genetics

B. chromosomes

C. phenotype

D. genotype


What is a gene for a particular trait called?

A. allele

B. chromosomes

C. phenotype

D. genotype


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 is the term for having two copies of the same allele?

A. homozygous

B. genetics

C. heterozygous

D. recessive


What type of inheritance pattern does the diagram represent?

A. Incomplete Dominance

B. Codominance

C. Multiple Alleles

D. Polygenic Inheritance


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 ABO blood group 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


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


Which of the following refers to the pair of alleles?

A. Phenotype

B. Genotype

C. Prototype

D. Bialleleism


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




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