Heredity Quiz
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When the doctor operates on the patient’s eye, he is using
A. learned behavior.
B. acquired physical trait.
C. inherited physical trait.
D. instinct.
Juan’s dog, Luna, was hit by a car. Fortunately, she lived and is healthy! But she is now missing a leg. Having only three legs is a(n)
A. inherited trait.
B. learned behavior.
C. instinct.
D. acquired trait.
Which is heterozygous ?
A. Tt
B. TT
C. ZZ
D. E
A trait that is always hidden when the dominant allele is present.
A. Phenotype
B. Recessive allele
C. Genotype
D. Heredity
A unit of genetic material or factor that determines a trait
A. Carrier
B. DNA
C. chromosome
D. Gene
Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________
A. predators to prey
B. water to rain
C. parents to offspring
D. fungi to protists
What is NOT an inherited trait of humans?
A. Favorite type of music
B. Freckles
C. Hair color
D. Height
What is cross pollination?
A. When pollen from a flower fertilizes itself or another flower on the same plant
B. When pollen from one flower fertilizes a flower on a different plant
C. A plant whose offspring share the same traits as the parent
D. A plant whose offspring is genetically different from the parent.
The passing of physical characteristics, or traits, from parent to offspring.
A. Genetics
B. Dominant allele
C. Heredity
D. Recessive allele
Which of the following is heterozygous or one dominant and one recessive allele?
A. FF
B. tt
C. Gg
D. RR
Which sentence is FALSE?
A. All organisms have 23 pairs of DNA.
B. Chromosomes are made of genes.
C. DNA is made out of 4 chemicals: adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine
D. DNA is the recipe for life.
The different forms of a gene.
A. Genes
B. Allele
C. Phenotype
D. Pedigree
When one allele is not dominant over another, resulting in a blended phenotype for heterozygous offspring is considered….
A. Incomplete Dominance
B. Codominance
Every living thing has genetic information stored in the form of
A. Ribosomes
B. DNA
C. Chloroplast
D. Mitochondria
If two alleles are the same for a certain trait they are considered
A. Homozygous
B. Twins
C. Heterozygous
D. Common