Super Science Week: Genetics

An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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The theory of natural selection would predict that what would happen to the tan and black mice on this lava field?

• The two colors of mice would eventually for a color that is a combination of the two

• The tan mice would eventually die off because of predators leaving only black mice

• Color is random and has no effect on the chances of survival

• The black mice would eventually die off because of predators leaving only tan mice

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Dominant or recessive?
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• Dominant 
• Recessive

What should students use to identify the percent chance of a trait being passed down from a parent to its offspring?

• a graph
• a flow chart
• a data table
• a Punnett square

What are the possible combinations of a pea plant with the alleles PP and a male pea plant with the alleles pp.
P= purple
p= white

• all Pp
• all PP
• Pp,PP,Pp,PP
• all pp

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Homozygous is when...

• the alleles are the same

• the alleles are different

• the alleles are absent

• the alleles are present

How do fossils provide evidence that evolution has happened on Earth?

• Fossils show how the sizes of certain animals has changed drastically over millions of years
• Fossils show that some species have gone extinct
• Fossils show how life forms present today are different than those from the past
• Different sedimentary rock layers provide evidence for how the environment has changed over time

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

• meiosis
• recessive traits
• genes
• heredity

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Any change in the sequence of DNA is...

• transgenic shift
• Single Genotype
• Monohybrid Trait
• Mutation

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