Chapter 4 - Life Science

What was the name of the Austrian monk who studied the principles of heredity in the early 1860's?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Reginald Punnet

• Johann Nestler

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The study of how traits are passed from one generation to the next is called __________.

• alleles

• heredity

• hybridology

• simple dominance

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Which of the following is not one of the Mendel's three principles of heredity?

• In a cross of purebred parents, all offspring will show the dominant trait.

• In a cross of hybrid parents, all offspring will also be hybrid.

• Two alleles for a parent's gen separate and then each combine with an allele from the other parent to determine the offspring's trait.

• Each allele is passed to the offspring independently of the other alleles.

Alleles for a dominant trait are represented with ___________ letters.

• uppercase

• lowercase

• Greek

• underlined

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Bb

• black fur

• a pea plant

• a Punnett square

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An Rr Artic fox mates with another Rr fox. What genotype would you expect the pups to have?

• all Rr

• some RR and some Rr

• some Rr and some rr

• Some RR, some Rr and some rr

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If a father is purebred for the dominant trait of dimples (DD) and a mother is purebred for not having dimples (dd), then you should expect the couple's children

• to all be DD

• to all be Dd

• to be either DD or Dd

• to be either DD, Dd or dd

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Pink snapdragons are an example of ____________

• codominance

• complete dominance

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

If both parents contribute i alleles, their child will have which blood type?

• A

• B

• AB

• O

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Human hair color, which is controlled by more than one gene, is an example of _____________.

• codominance

• incomplete dominance

• polygenic inheritance

• simple dominance