Genes and Heredity 9th - 12th Grade Quiz

Genes and Heredity

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Ms. Sabinson

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Other Sciences, Biology

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9th - 12th Grade

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36 questions

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1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called

heredity

deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA

cloning

precipitation

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material called

meiosis

recessive traits

genes

heredity

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

James Watson and Francis Crick are the scientists who discovered

mutated cells

the double helix structure of DNA

that there are dominant and recessive genes

evolutionary traits in human beings

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

During sexual reproduction, each parent contributes

a double helix of chromosomes

one strand of chromosomes, or half of the new organism's DNA

a dominant gene and a recessive gene

multiple mutated cells

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

If purple flowers are dominant in a plant and white flowers are recessive in that plant, then when the purple-flowered plants with two dominant genes are mated with the white-flowered plants with two recessive genes, the first generation of offspring should have

100% white flowers

75% purple flowers and 25% white flowers

50% purple flowers and 50% white flowers

100% purple flowers