Genetics

Which is the best example of traits being transfer from parent to offspring

• Daughter has curly hair like her mother

• Son likes the same foods as his father

• Son can speak Spanish like his parents

• Daughter has long hair like her mother

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Why do these kittens not look alike even though they have the same parents?

• Some of the kittens only received genetic material from their mother.

• Each kitten received a variation of genetic material from the parents.

• The kittens were cloned using genetic material from one parent.

• The kittens received twice the genetic material from both parents.

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The passing of genetic instructions from generation to generation is know as...

• Chromosomes

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Traits

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of asexual reproduction?

• Takes longer to reproduce offspring

• Less able to survive environmental changes

• Produces fewer offspring

• Produces offspring very quickly

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Which of the following is the best example of inheritance?

• Similar animals found on different islands

• Mammoths found frozen in the Artic

• A monkey using a stick to get ants out of a tree stump

• two short haired cats producing a litter of short haired kittens

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Yeast cells reproduce by budding. Which of the following best describes a yeast bud?

• The yeast bud has half of the DNA from its parent

• The yeast bud will have different traits than its parent

• The yeast bud is uniform to the parent

• The yeast bud is diverse from its parent

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Which of the following is NOT an example of heredity?

• A white rose is crossed with a red rose to produce a plant with pink roses

• A daughter is slightly taller than her mother

• Yeast producing asexually to create uniform offspring

• Mom showing her daughter how to cook

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Which of the following statements is incorrect about sexual reproduction?

• Offspring have a better chance to survive environmental changes

• Creates offspring that is uniform

• Requires two different parents

• Offspring will be diverse

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What components of a cell determine the traits an organism receives?

• Genes, cell membrane, chromosomes

• Vacuole, Chromosomes, genes

• Chromosomes, genes, nucleus

• Chromosomes, cell membrane, vacuole

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Which of the following will produce uniform offspring?

• A female cat collects sperm from a male cat

• A hydra produces a bud which breaks off

• The pollen from one tree pollenate another tree

• Marlin fertilized the eggs of Coral and they got Nemo

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