Chromosomes and Inheritance

Mendel’s ideas about inheritance and probability can be applied to all______

• plants

• animals

• living things

• bacteria

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Mendel did not know what ____ actually looked like.

• genes

• pea plants

• larkspur

• chromosomes

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Genes are segments of code that appear on ____.

• structures

• DNA

• chromosomes

• cell cycle

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___ are made in the beginning of the cell cycle.

• structures

• chromosomes

• proteins

• cells

The series of events in which a cell grows is called the___

• cell cycle

• mitosis

• meiosis

• proteins

Every cell in your body has the same number of chromosomes except sex cells the number of chromosomes is___

• 80

• 23

• 46

• 47

All sexually producing organisms form sex cells which have ____ the number of chromosomes as body cells.

• half

• twice as much

• three fourths

• exactly

Each gene contains ____ for coding a particular trait.

• constructions

• instructions

• diagrams

• proteins

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During fertilization, you receive ___ chromosomes from your father and ___ chromosomes from your mother.

• 23-23

• 46-46

• 47-47

• 24-24

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The pairs of chromosomes are called ____ chromosomes.

• heterozygous

• homologous

• homozygous

• heterologous

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