Icheck 2 Heredity and Adaptations Foss

A snapdragon produces either yellow or white flowers. The dominant allele (Y) produces yellow flower color and the recessive allele (y) produces white color. a. What combination or combinations of alleles could produce white Flowers?

• YY

• Yy or yy

• Yy or YY

• yy

Based on the previous question. (A snapdragon produces either yellow or white flowers. The dominant allele (Y) produces yellow flower color and the recessive allele (y) produces white color. a. What combination or combinations of alleles could produce white Flowers?)Which color of snapdragon (white or yellow) would you expect to be more common?

• White

• Yellow

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which characteristic do the horse and wolf share.

• meat-eating teeth

• retractable claws

• Hair

• ability to purr

• Vertebrate

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The circles at A, B, C, D on the cladogram represent _____ for the leopard and the cat

• descendants

• common descendants

• common ancestors

• most recent common ancestors

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which statement is true

• The most recent common ancestor of the leopard and the horse is at circle D

• Wolves have retractable claws

• Leopards and cats share more characteristics than horses and wolves.

• House cats are direct descendants of turtles.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which statement is true?

• Alleles are two versions of a gene

• Cells in different tissues or organs (skin, eye, bone, etc.) contain different DNA

• One gene can code for several different proteins

• An offspring can get more DNA from one parent than the other

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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