Beyond Mendelian Genetics

What is heredity?

• A kind of genetic disorder
• The way DNA divides
• A trait you inherit from your parents
• The passing down of traits from parents to children

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What is the relationship between DNA and chromosomes?

• Chromosomes are made of DNA
• DNA is made of chromosomes
• DNA and chromosomes are the same thing.
• All of the above are correct

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How many pairs of chromosomes exist in each of your cells?

• 10
• 12
• 23
• 46

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Why are your chromosomes arranged in pairs?

• Scientists have no idea
• Because you get one from your mom and one from your dad
• Because pairs can divide easier
• Because DNA is awesome

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Besides genetics, what other factors are responsible for how you will grow and develop?

• How people treat you
• How hard you study
• Nutrition and environment
• What your parents look like

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Which of the following alleles is homozygous (purebred) recessive?

• Tt
• tt
• TT
• t

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa
• red hair
• heterozygous genes
• mutated DNA

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Aa is

• homozygous (purebred)
• heterozygous (hybrid)

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G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG
• Gg
• gg
• all of the choices result in yellow

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Who is considered the "father of genetics"?

• Gregor Mendel
• Reginald Punnett
• James Watson
• Justin Bieber