1/31 Warm-up: Alleles

Which of the following traits is encoded in your DNA?

• Your personality

• Your likes and dislikes

• Your intelligence

• Your eye color

One trait that is ALWAYS present and causes the other traits to disappear is a ________________________

• recessive trait
• aggressive trait
• absent trait
• dominant trait

Dominant genes are represented by a ________

• Male gene

• lowercase letter

• recessive trait

• capital letter

The brown eye trait is dominant over blue eyes. Which of the following genotypes best represents the phenotype for blue eyes?

• BB

• Bb

• bb

• bB

G = green, g = yellow

The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG

• Gg

• gg

• all of the choices result in yellow

The different forms of a gene

• trait

• phenotype

• genotype

• allele