Unit 2:Lesson 1-Inheritance

The person that revolutionized the study of heredity through his experiments with pea plants was ________________

• Punnett

• Mendel

• Einstein

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_________________ is an organism's physical feature (appearance)

• Phenotype

• Genotype

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Where can a gene be found?

• On a person's clothing

• Within the DNA of the organism(living thing)

• In the heart of the organism(living thing)

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a trait?

• eye color

• freckles

• liking vanilla

• body height

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_____________ is an organism’s genetic make-up

• Phenotype

• Genotype

______________ is the passing of traits (physical characteristics) from parent to offspring.

• Recessive

• Dominance

• Heredity

• D) Mutations

Which trait will always show up when the gene is present in the organisms’ DNA?

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

A child looks more like one parent than the other because a child only inherits chromosomes from one parent.

• True

• False

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What is the phenotype for the image above?

• Brown eyes

• Blue eyes

• Bb

• bb

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The study of heredity is called ___________.

• genetics

• mutations

• pea plants

• recessive