Genetics Review

Genetics Review

9th Grade

25 Qs

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Genetics Review

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Assessment

Quiz

Biology

9th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-3, HS-LS4-3

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25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A plant with orange flowers was crossed with a plant with blue flowers. All of the offspring have orange flowers. Which of these terms describes the blue flower trait?
Recessive
Dominant
Codominant
Incomplete Dominance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The punnett square shows a cross between two flowering plants. One parent has pink flowers (Pp) and the other parent has white flowers (pp). What percentage of pink flowers will you have? 
0
25
50
75

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Chickens can have different types of feathers. Frizzled feathers curl toward a chicken’s head. Assume that feather type is determined by a single gene and that the allele for frizzled feathers is dominant over the allele for straight feathers. In a cross between two chickens with straight feathers, what percentage of the offspring can be expected to have frizzled feathers?
0
25
50
75

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Scientists learned that the allele for long eyelashes (L) is dominant to the allele for short eyelashes (l), and the allele for strong eye muscles (M) is dominant to the allele for weak eye muscles (m). The Punnett square below show a cross between two of these organisms. What fraction of the offspring will most likely have long eyelashes with weak eye muscles? 
3/16
9/16
1/16
0/16

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The cross of a plant with white flowers (WW) and a plant with Green flowers (ww) is shown in the Punnett square below. What would be the genotype and phenotype of the offspring from this cross?
Ww - white
Ww - green
WW - white
ww - green

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was one contribution Gregor Mendel made to science by performing his experiments on plants?
Showing traits are inherited
Proving that plants are living organisms
Showing that the structure of DNA is a double helix
Proving that random mutations cause the creation of new species

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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The characteristic for curly hair (C) is dominant to the characteristic for straight hair (c).  A cross between two individuals for hair type is shown in the Punnett square below. What must the genotype of the parents be to produce the results shown in the Punnett square?
Homozygous dominant X homozygous dominant
Homozygous dominant X heterozygous
Homozygous recessive X homozygous dominant
Heterozygous X heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

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