21 questions
The study of ____________ is called genetics
heredity
dominance
pea plants
mutations
Gregor Mendel studied heredity using _______ plants
rose
pea
berry
corn
____________ used plants to study the way traits are passed from parent to offspring
Mendel
Punnett
Sutton
If you cross a white flower (pp) with a purple flower (PP), the possible genotypes of the offspring are
PP and pp
All Pp
All PP
All pp
If you crossed a PP (purple) with a pp (white), what would the phenotypes be?
all white
all tall
all purple
1/2 white, 1/2 purple
The organism's appearance is known as its
heredity
pedigree
phenotype
genotype
If you cross two rabbits that have the genotype Bb, how many possible genotypes can be found in the offspring?
one
two
three
four
Genetics is the study of ______________
DNA
heredity
genes
Who is the Father of Genetics?
Darwin
Punnett
Mendel
_____________ describes a trait that covers over, or masks another form of that trait.
recessive
gene
allele
dominant
Same traits produced in offspring from generation to generation is called?
pure breeding
cross breeding
hybrid
children
_________________ describes a trait that is covered over, or masked by another form of that trait.
dominant
punnett
recessive
gene
Breeding organisms with different traits is called?
hybrid
cross breeding
pure breeding
genetics
The offspring that result from cross breeding are called?
phenotype
genotype
hybrid
gene
The letters representing the phenotype is called
phenotype
genotype
Different forms of a gene are called
alleles
traits
A ______________ square is a model that helps make genetic predictions.
Punnett
Mendel
Two of the same alleles of the gene for a certain trait
heterozygous
homozygous
Two different alleles of the gen for a certain trait
homozygous
heterozygous
In a pedigree, what do circles represent?
males
females
carrier
non carrier
In a pedigree, when a circle of square is halfway shaded, is it
male
female
carrier
non carrier