7th grade Science Test- Genetics
24 Questions I 2456 Attempts I Created By sfurtek 1452 days agoThis is a quiz about Mendel, his contributions, Punnett Squares, Probability, and Genetics.
Question Excerpt From 7th grade Science Test- Genetics
| Q.1) | The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring is __________. |
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| Q.2) | Mendel wondered why different pea plants had _________ ____________? |
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| Q.3) | What happens when an egg and sperm join? |
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| Q.4) | What is happening when pollen from one plant is put into another? |
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| Q.5) | If a Purebred Tall Plant and a Purebred short plant are crossed when will be the outcome of the F1 generation? |
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| Q.6) | A wrinkled seed shape is the Recessive Allele, what is the Dominant Allele? |
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| Q.7) | When the Dominant Allele is Green Pod Color and the Recessive Allele is a Pinched Pod Shape is it possible for an organism to have both of the traits? |
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| Q.8) | When a capital letter is used, what kind of allele is being represented? |
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| Q.9) | After Mendel died scientists began to recognize the importance of his ideas. They called him a name. What was the name that they called him? |
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| Q.10) | If a coin is tossed 10 times, what is the probability that it will land on heads? (answer is a percent) |
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| Q.11) | When colored chips are pulled out of a bag AND NOT put back in, is the probability still independent? |
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| Q.12) | If the probability of something is 75% will the event really occur 75% of the time? |
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| Q.13) | A penny is tossed 6 times and has landed on heads each time. Knowing those results is the penny going to land on heads the next toss? |
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| Q.14) | If Tall is the dominant trait and short is the recessive trait what letter(s) do you represent a short plant with? |
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| Q.15) | A Punnett Square shows all the possible combinations of what? |
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| Q.16) | If a pea plant has a gray seed coat color, is that the pea plants phenotype of genotype? |
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| Q.17) | Black is the dominant color of bunny's fur, it can be expressed using what genotype combination? |
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| Q.18) | When two identical alleles for a trait are in an organism, the organism is said to be ____________? (there are two possible answers) |
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| Q.19) | When an organism has two different alleles for a trait they are said to be ________________. (two possible answers) |
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| Q.20) | If a heterozygous chicken has both black and white feathers, they have neither a dominant or recessive trait. What is having neither a dominant or recessive trait called? |
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| Q.21) | Mendel decided to cross pea plants with ____________ traits. |
| Q.22) | In pea plants, the dominant trait for Seed Color is Yellow. What is the Recessive trait? |
| Q.23) | When Mendel crossed the pea plants the trait that seemed to disappear happened to reappear. During what generation did it reappear? |
| Q.24) | Mendel's experiments demonstrated that parents traits to not always go to their _________. |
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