Life Science Chapter 4 Vocabulary Quiz

What do you call an organism that always produces descendants with the same trait for a specific character?

• Hybrid

• Purebred

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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Which term describes an organism with a mix of alleles for a specific character?

• Purebred

• Hybrid

• Dominant trait

• Recessive trait

What is the name for a trait of a specific character that appears in a hybrid organism?

• Recessive trait

• Dominant trait

• Genotype

• Polygenic inheritance

Which term refers to a trait of a specific character that is hidden by the dominant trait in a hybrid organism?

• Dominant trait

• Recessive trait

• Simple dominance

• Codominance

What is the pattern of inheritance in which there are only two alleles and the dominant trait is always expressed in a hybrid organism?

• Codominance

• Simple dominance

• Incomplete dominance

• Polygenic inheritance

What do the letters that symbolize an organism's alleles for a specific gene represent?

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Hybrid

• Polygenic inheritance

What is the term for the trait that an organism expresses as determined by its genotype?

• Phenotype

• Genotype

• Dominant trait

• Recessive trait

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Which pattern of inheritance in a hybrid results in traits being blended together?

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance

• Simple dominance

• Polygenic inheritance

What is the pattern of inheritance in a hybrid in which both traits are present but not blended?

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance

• Simple dominance

• Polygenic inheritance

Which pattern of inheritance occurs when two or more genes interact to control a single character?

• Simple dominance

• Polygenic inheritance

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance