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- 1. Multiple ChoiceHeredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________predators to preywater to rainparents to offspringfungi to protists
- 2. Multiple Choice___________________________ is the study of how traits are passed on, or inherited.dominant traitsratiophenotypegenetics
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material called?genes.meiosis.recessive traits.heredity.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceIf a child has red hair, they inherited a certain _______________ from their parents.ratiotraitprobabilitysex chromosome
- 5. Multiple ChoiceOne trait that is ALWAYS present and causes the other traits to disappear is a ________________________recessive traitaggressive traitabsent traitdominant trait
- 6. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False: Recessive traits are ALWAYS presentTrueFalse
- 7. Multiple Choice. During sexual reproduction, each parent contributes...a double helix of chromosomes.a dominant gene and a recessive gene.one strand of chromosomes, or half of the new organism's DNAmultiple mutated cells.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceOffspring receives two sets of _____________ (one from each parent)blue jeansgenesmachinespedigree
- 9. Multiple Choice_____________________ is the appearance of an organism, or how it looksphenotyperatiorecessive traitheredity
- 10. Multiple Choice
A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parentsMendel GridGenetic Tic Tac ToePunnett SquarePedigree Plot - 11. Multiple Choice______________________ is the mathematical chance that something will happendivisionselective breedingratioprobability
- 12. Multiple Choice_____________________ are cells that join to make offspringspeed cellssex cellspea cellspedigree cells
- 13. Multiple ChoiceIf purple flowers are dominant in a plant and white flowers are recessive in that plant, then when purple-flowered plants with two dominant genes are mated with white-flowered plants with two recessive genes, the first generation of offspring should have100% white flowers100% purple flowers50% purple flowers and 50% white flowers75% purple flowers and 25% white flowers
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhen humans breed purebred dogs to look a certain way and have traits that they like, this is an example of ___________________________Probably BreedingSectional BreedingSelective BreedingSuspended Breeding
- 15. Multiple Choice__________________ is a tool for tracing through generations of family members.PedigreeProbabilityPurebredPunnett Square
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