Life Science 4A-4C Quiz (BJU)

What was the name of the Austrian monk who studied the principles of heredity in the early 1860s?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Reginald Punnett

• Johann Nestler

Which notation could be used to represent the recessive allele for green pea seeds?

• G

• g

• Y

• y

A Punnett square determines

• which genotype an offspring will have.

• which phenotype an offspring will have.

• how likely an offspring is to have a certain genotype.

• how many offspring will be produced.

An Rr Arctic fox mates with another Rr fox. What genotype(s) would you expect the pups to have?

• all Rr

• some RR and some Rr

• some Rr and some rr

• some RR, some Rr, and some rr

A cross of purebred parents with different traits may result in some offspring with the recessive trait.

• True

• False

The way an organism looks, or the trait its genes express, is called its genotype.

• True

• False

Pink snapdragons are an example of _______.

• A. codominance

• B. complete dominance

• C. incomplete dominance

• D. multiple alleles

Human hair color, which is controlled by more than one gene, is an example of _______.

• A. codominance

• B. incomplete dominance

• C. polygenic inheritance

• D. simple dominance

Human blood type does not follow Mendel’s principles of heredity.

• True

• False

Crossing a yellow-flowered plant with a red-flowered plant that follows incomplete dominance produces a plant whose flowers are both yellow and red.

• True

• False