Introduction To Genetics Trivia Quiz
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| Total Attempts: 146
If you take up time to try and understand human genetics, there is a lot that you can get to understand about your body. Are you a new student and wish to understand more of the basics when it comes to genetics? Worry not like the quiz below is perfectly designed to help you do that in a short time. Give it a try and keep practicing!
Questions and Answers
- 1.The scientific study of heredity, that is now at the core of a revolution in understanding biology.________________
- 2.During sexual reproduction, male and female reproductive cells join, a process known as ___________________
- 3.When Mendel took charge of the monastery garden, he had several stocks of pea plants. These peas were_____________________, meaning that if they were allowed to self pollinate, they would produce offspring identical to themselves.
- 4.A________ is a specific characteristic, such as seed color and plant height, that varies from one individual to another.
- 5.The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits are called __________.
- 6.Today, scientists call the chemical factors that determine traits
- A.
Cross breeding
- B.
Genes
- C.
Genetics
- D.
Biological inheritance
- 7.The different forms of a gene are called
- A.
Recessive
- B.
Different genes
- C.
Alleles
- D.
Dominant
- 8.What does the principle of dominance state?
- 9.Separation(ex. of alleles)
- 10.The formation of sex cells
- 11.What happens to alleles during segregation?
- 12.The likelihood that a particular event will occur is called
- A.
Probability
- B.
Chance
- C.
Outcome
- D.
Segregation
- 13.The principles of probability
- A.
Post outcomes do not affect future ones
- B.
The coin may land heads up or tails up
- C.
States that everything happens by chance
- D.
Can be used to predict the outcomes of genetic crosses
- 14.The gene combinations that might result from a genetic cross can be determined by drawing a diagram known as a
- 15.What are Punnett squares used for?
- 16.True or false:Homozygous organisms have two different alleles for the same trait.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Organisms that have two different alleles for the same trait are
- 18.Physical characteristics are
- 19.The genetic makeup of an organism is its
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