DNA, Genes, and Chromosomes

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

• Pea Plant

• Pigeons

• Pear trees

• Photosynthesis

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis

• Elective traits

• Alleles

• Quadrants

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey

• water to rain

• parents to offspring

• fungi to protists

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What is a genotype? 

• The genetic make up (code)

• The physical trait

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What is DNA

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• deoxyribonucleic acid

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Why is DNA important?

• It teleports cookies to my locker.

• It carries the instructions for our cells.

• It allows me to be invisible.

• It gave us a snow day in August.

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What are the x-shaped objects called inside of the nucleus of a cell?

• genes

• DNA

• chromosomes

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The part of the cell that contains chromosomes and genes is the:

• Mitochondria

• Nucleus

• Chloroplast

• Ribosomes

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A segment of DNA that codes for a trait

• gene

• centromere

• chromosome

• chromatid

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How many Chromosomes do we inherit from our parents?

• 23 from dad and 23 from mom, or 46 total

• 13 from dad and 13 from mom, or 26 total

• 13 from dad and 33 from mom, or 46 total

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