Unit 7 Exam 1 (QuickCheck)

Different variations of genes are...

• Genomes

• Alleles

• Chromosomes

• Genes

The traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material called

• meiosis
• recessive traits
• genes
• heredity

This type of allele is expressed whether there are one or two copies present.

• dominant

• recessive

• homozygous

• heterozygous

______ is the set of genes possessed by someone

• DNA
• Chromosome
• Genotype
• Phenotype

Expressed only if NO dominant version is present

• homozygous
• heterozgyous
• allele
• recessive

What tool can we use to predict what traits offspring will have?

• Punnett Square
• Wardlaw Rectangle
• Mendel Circle
• Preston Square

A capital P represents a dominant allele for purple flower. A lowercase p represents the recessive allele for white flower. Which is the only way to get a white flower color?

• Pp

• PP

• pP

• pp

Traits can be inherited or influenced by ______ factors, like the sun. 

• environmental
• mutation
• variation
• genetic

a gene composed of two identical alleles

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• dominant

• recessive

a gene composed of two different alleles

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant

• recessive