DNA and Heredity

DNA and Heredity

7th Grade

15 Qs

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DNA and Heredity

DNA and Heredity

Assessment

Quiz

Science

7th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-2, HS-LS1-1

+1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does a lowercase letter represent in a Punnett square?

A dominant allele

A recessive allele

A heterozygous pair

A phenotype

Answer explanation

A lowercase letter in a Punnett square represents a recessive allele.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Every living thing has genetic information stored in the form of

Ribosomes

DNA

Chloroplast

Mitochondria

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Physical traits that are expressed are known as ____________

Mutation

Personality

Genotype

Phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Chromosomes are

Found in the mitochondria

Made of 20 pairs

Long strands of DNA that contain many genes

Bundles of DNA that contain only one gene each

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Traits that are passed from parents to offspring are always

Recessive

Inherited

Dominant

Heterozygous

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next is known as

Alleles

Ancestry

Heredity

Variation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

The genes of an organism that are written with capital or lowercase letters

Pant size

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Genotype

Gretchentype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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