10 questions
Which of the following have you inherited completely from your parents? Choose the best answer.
The shape of your blood cells
Your intelligence
Your personality
Your weight
What is heredity?
The passing of traditions from parents to their children
A type of asexual reproduction.
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
Another term for sexual reproduction.
What can you conclude about Gregor Mendel from the information presented in the video?
Religious authorities forced him to stop his experiments
He was one of the first researchers to establish how heredity worked
He concluded that heredity worked for people as well as plants
He established all the principles of modern genetics
Which term best describes how Mendel conducted his experiments?
Occasionally
Carelessly
Carefully
Quickly
What did Mendel learn about his pea plants?
The tall plant trait dominates the short plant trait
The short plant trait dominates the tall plant trait
Neither the short nor tall trait is dominant
Both the short and tall traits are dominant
When two pea plants with Tt genotypes are cross-bred, how many short (tt) plants will there most likely be in the new generation
1 out of 4
1 out of 2
1 out of 6
1 out of 8
The "Tt"s in this Punnett square represent:
Tall pea plants
Female pea plants
Medium-sized pea plants
Short pea plants
If a brown-eyed mother and a blue-eyed father have four children, three will probably have brown eyes. What can you conclude from this?
Brown eyes are a successful trait
Brown eyes are a submissive trait
Brown eyes are a recessive trait
Brown eyes are a dominant trait
What can you conclude about one of Mendel's short pea plants?
It had one dominant and one recessive gene
It had a pair of recessive genes
It had a pair of dominant genes
It had no recessive genes
What did Gregor Mendel and Reginald Punnett have in common?
They were both monks
They both lived during the 20th century
They both experimented with pea plants
They both lived in Germany