Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Genetics Review

What is another way of saying "purebred"?

• homozygous
• dominant
• recessive
• heterozygous

If a pea plant were homozygous recessive for height, how would its alleles be represented?

• TT
• Tt
• tt
• tT

How can two parents with brown eyes have a child with blue eyes?

• The parents may both have recessive genes for blue eyes.
• The child was born during the winter
• Eye color in humans is not an inherited trait
• The child was deprived of oxygen during its birth

Best term that describes the transmission of traits from one generation to the next.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Breeding

• Hybridization

The idea that for any particular trait, the pair of alleles of each parent separate and only one allele from each parent passes to an offspring is Mendel's principle of:

• independent assortment

• hybridization

• segregation

Phenotype refers to the ______________________ of an individual.

• genetic makeup

• actual physical appearance

• recessive alleles

Polygenic traits are ones that are:

• controlled by more than just a single pair of alleles

• responsible for a number of traits in the phenotype

• found in either men or women but not both

Some people have AB blood types for the ABO blood system. They have all of the characteristics of both type A and type B blood--they are not a blend of them. The inheritance pattern responsible for this is referred to as:

• dominance

• blending

• codominance

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

• Fibonacci sequence

• Punnett square

• Venn Diagram

• Mendel sequence

The gene makeup of an organism for a particular trait is known as its

• dominance
• phenotype
• allele
• genotype