Mendels Genetics

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Science
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7th - 9th Grade
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Medium
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Michelle DeYoung-Foster
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8 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was Gregor Medel
A scientist and priest who studies pea plant traits.
The "father" of modern genetics.
He discovered patterns of inheritance.
All of the statements above are correct.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the main pattern Mendel discovered? (Choose more than one.)
Two pea plants would have exactly the same kind of offspring?
Each parent gives 1/2 of their directions/code for traits to the offspring.
He could make a good hypothesis what the offspring might look like using the Law of Probability and Punnett squares.
Pea plants could show totally different traits than the parent plant had.
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS3-2
NGSS.HS-LS3-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
While Mendel was alive what was true of his work as a scientist. (Pick more than one.)
He had several students learning his methods from him.
His work was ignored for years until about 1900.
A college was opened and other scientists worked with him.
He was a researcher who documented great notes we still use today in the study of modern genetics.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mendel crossed two hybrid yellow seeded plants (Yy) and using probability he discovered....
All the new plants were yellow (Y) (100%) 4:4
One of the new plants was green (yy) 25% 1:4
None of the plants grew at all.
All of the new plants were green (yy) 100% 4:4
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS3-1
NGSS.HS-LS3-2
NGSS.HS-LS3-3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the chance a coin will land heads up?
100%
25%
33%
50%
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A dominant gene is written on a Punnett Square as a:
Capital letter (Y)
Percentage (%)
Lower case letter (y)
A number (#)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A recessive trait is written on a Punnett Square as a:
Capital letter (Y)
A percentage (%)
A lower case letter (y)
A number (#)
8.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Explain the KEY IDEA that the probability of one event DOES NOT affect the results of the next.
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