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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe passing of traits from parents to offspring is calledhereditydeoxyribonucleic acid, DNAcloningprecipitation
- 2. Multiple ChoiceThe traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material calledmeiosisrecessive traitsgenesheredity
- 3. Multiple ChoiceJames Watson and Francis Crick are the scientists who discoveredmutated cellsthe double helix structure of DNAthat there are dominant and recessive genesevolutionary traits in human beings
- 4. Multiple ChoiceDuring sexual reproduction, each parent contributesa double helix of chromosomesone strand of chromosomes, or half of the new organism's DNAa dominant gene and a recessive genemultiple mutated cells
- 5. Multiple ChoiceIf 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 have100% white flowers75% purple flowers and 25% white flowers50% purple flowers and 50% white flowers100% purple flowers
- 6. Multiple ChoiceA cell created by cloning is geneticallyidentical to its parentidentical to its stem cellunique because it is a mixture of DNAhalf like its father and half like its mother
- 7. Multiple ChoiceEvery DNA molecule is made up of molecules calledchromosome quadsmutational pairsnucleotidesmitochondria
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHow many pairs of chromosomes do human cells have?100,000231446
- 9. Multiple ChoiceA woman dyes her hair. Her new hair color is an example of what kind of trait?AcquiredInheritedLearned
- 10. Multiple ChoiceTwo rams are fighting and one loses a horn. What kind of trait is this?InheritedAcquiredLearned
- 11. Multiple ChoiceA cat hunting a mouse is an example of what kind of trait?LearnedAcquiredInherited
- 12. Multiple ChoiceA young girl has bright green eyes. What kind of trait is this?InheritedAcquiredLearned
- 13. Multiple ChoiceA black lab dog and a yellow lab dog have puppies. 2 of their puppies have black fur, and 3 puppies have yellow fur. What kind of trait is this?AcquiredLearnedInherited
- 14. Multiple ChoiceFlamingos turning pink from eating shrimp is an example of what kind of trait?LearnedInheritedAcquired
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhether or not you can roll your tongue is an example of what kind of trait?LearnedAcquiredInherited
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What is the ratio of this punnet square?4:42:23:11:3 - 17. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the difference between dominant and recessive genes?Dominant genes are the alleles that are most likely to be expressed in the outcome of the offspring and recessive genes are least likely to be in the outcome of the offspringdominant and big and loud and recessive are quite smalldominant are bigger than humans and recessive aren't
- 18. Multiple ChoiceMutation Can Be...harmfulhelpfulneitherall of the above
- 19. Multiple ChoiceMutation can happen in many waysTrueFalse
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhy can mutations be good, bad, or neitherthey are all the sameone is different from the other twoit doesn't mattergood mutations cause evolution, bad mutations cause death, and some mutations don't do anything
- 21. Multiple ChoiceHow many children do #5 & #6 have?1 male child2 male and 2 female children2 male children1 daughter and 1 son
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat do the shaded shapes represent?Normal individualsAffected individualsCarriersDeceased
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThe image shows the pattern of inheritance for colorblindness. From this diagram we can tell that colorblindness isa codominant traita sex-linked traitcarried on the Y chromosomeis associated with a dominant allele
- 24. Multiple ChoiceHow much of your DNA do you inherit from your mom?10%25%50%it varies
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the result of meiosis?2 daughter cells that are haploid and genetically different2 daughter cells that are haploid & identical4 daughter cells that are diploid & genetically different4 daughter cells that are haploid & genetically different
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a phenotype?Aared hairheterozygousDNA
- 27. Multiple ChoiceIf the dominant allele (B) represents brown hair and the recessive allele (b) represents blonde hair, which offspring represents a homozygous recessive genotype?BBBbblondebb
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the definition of Heterozygous?when an individual has two sets of the same allelewhen it is neither dominant or recessiveA pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive.
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the definition of Homozygous?When one allele is dominant and one is recessiveWhen an individual has either RR or rrwhen it is neither dominant or recessive
- 30. Multiple Choiceone of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristicallelephenotypegenegenetic variation
- 31. Multiple ChoiceTraits passing from parents to offspring are?meiosisgenetic variationmitochondriaheredity
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the Punnett square used to predict?possible genotypes for the crosswhich traits are dominantwhich traits are recessivethe number of offspring
- 33. Multiple ChoiceIf a plant with the genotype PP is crossed with a plant with the genotype pp, what are the possible genotypes of the offspring?PP, Pp, pP, ppPP. pp. pp. PPPp, Pp, Pp, PpPp, PP, pp, PP
- 34. Multiple ChoiceThe entire genetic makeup of an organism or the combination of genes for one or more specific traits is....genetic variationgenotypegeneallele
- 35. Multiple ChoiceAn organism's appearance or other detectable characteristic is a what?phenotypegeneallelegenetic variation
- 36. Multiple ChoiceOne of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic is a what?genegenotypeallelephenotype
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