Heredity Practice Test

The study of heredity is called

• geneology

• heredity

• biology

• Mendelism

The father of genetics that studied pea plants and came up with a lot of the initial mechanisms of how heredity works.

• Gregor Mendel

• Francis Crick

• Tony Stark

• Charles Darwin

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Heredity is the transfer of traits from one generation to the next.

• True

• False

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Gregor Mendel discovered the basics of heredity by experimenting primarily with what organism?

• Pea Plants

• Elephants

• Fungi

• Humans

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A student studying feather color inheritance in a certain species of chickens observes that the chickens have black (homozygous), blue (heterozygous), or white (homozygous) feathers. The student hypothesizes that this feather color trait follows the incomplete dominance inheritance pattern.

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What do the letters inside a Punnett square represent?

• phenotypes of parents

• phenotypes of offspring

• genotypes of parents

• genotypes of offspring

The figure shows a Punnet Square for an inherited trait.

The arrow is pointing to a circled genotype in the square.

What genotype does the circled “dd” represent?

• the genotype that only the girls will inherit

• the genotype in the mother’s egg

• the genotype that any of the children could inherit

• the genotype that exactly ¼ of the children will inherit

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Select all of the following genotypes that is/are a HETEROZYGOUS genotype

• AA

• Aa

• aa

• Zz

• zz

Use the Punnett square below to answer the question below.

​Possible offspring of two people who are heterozygous for earlobe attachment are shown. What is the probability of having a child who has attached earlobes?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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If your father is heterozygous for brown eyes and your mother has blue eyes, what are their genotypes?

• dad is BB and mom is bb

• both are Bb

• dad is bb and mom is Bb

• dad is Bb and mom is bb

• dad is bb and mom is BB

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