Mendelian Genetics

What is the percentage of homozygous recessive offspring?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

Green peas are dominant (G) to yellow peas (g). What is the genotype for a hetereozygous dominant offspring?

• Gg
• gg
• GG

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Which of the following is a heterozygous dominant genotype? 

• GG
• gg
• GGG
• Gg

In Mendel's pea plants, the homozygous recessive phenotype was white flowers.  If Mendel crossed two homozygous recessive pea plants, what color flowers would be seen in the offspring?

• white and purple
• white 
• purple
• lavendar

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What percentage of the offspring will be purebred dominant?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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Dominant alleles are represented by a(n)

• phenotype
• lower case letter
• upper case letter
• punnett square 

What type of traits "show up" in a population more often?

• dominant
• recessive
• punnett squares
• alleles

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True or False:
A heterozygous dominant trait can be written as BB.

• True
• False

D = dimples        d = no dimples 
What is the genotype for a homozygous recessive offspring?

• DD
• Dd
• dd

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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What is the percentage of a homozyogus dominant offspring?

• 75%
• 50%
• 25%
• 0%

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