Heredity Quiz

What is the study of heredity

• Allele

• History

• Genetics

• Heritage

Purebred is defined as "an organism that always produces offspring with the ___ form of a trait as the parent

Factors that control traits

• Genes

• Alleles

• Dominant allele

• Heredity

Different forms of a gene

• Genes

• Traits

• Alleles

• None of the above

What did the Second generation of Mendel's Pea Plant experiment look like?

• All tall

• All short

• Half tall and short

• 3/4 tall and 1/4 short

What did the FIRST generation of Mendel's Pea Plant experiment look like?

• All tall

• All short

• Half tall and short

• 3/4 tall and 1/4 short

Phenotypes are appearances or what kind of traits?

• Smellable

• Feelable

• Visible

• Touchable

Which one is considered heterozygous?

• Hh

• GG

• kk

• LL

Which one is considered homozygous

• Kk

• gg

• UU

• Ff

The ability to roll the tounge (R) is determined by a dominant gene while the recessive gene results in the inability to roll the tongue (r). A man and his wife can roll both of their tongue but were surprised that they found that their son could not. What is the genotype of their son?

• RR

• Rr

• rr

• None of the above