Genetics & Meiosis Test (4/10/2024)

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35 questions
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Which genotype below is heterozygous?

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An organism’s expressed physical trait, such as seed color, is called its:

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If the allele for green pea pod color (G) is dominant over the allele for yellow pea pod color (g), which of the following genotypes would a plant with yellow pods have?

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In corn plants, green (G) is dominant to yellow (g). What is the chance of two heterozygous corn plants producing yellow corn plants?

Refer to this image to answer #5.
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What information is revealed in the portion of the karyotype above?

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Which of the following describes an organism that has the genotype Bb?

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Genes located on homologous chromosomes may have alternate forms that control different forms of a trait. These alternate forms of a gene are called _____.

Refer to this image to answer #8.
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What is the genotype in the bottom left-hand quadrant in the Punnett square shown above?

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A trait carried on the X or Y chromosome is said to be ________ inheritance.

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The alleles contained in _____ produced by each parent are shown along the sides of a Punnett square.

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A useful device for predicting the possible offspring of crosses between different genotypes is the _____.

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Mendel's law of segregation states that during meiosis, the factors that control each trait separate and only _____ from each pair is/are passed to the offspring.

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A couple has two children, both of whom are boys. What is the chance that the parents' next child will be a boy?

Refer to this diagramme to answer #14-15.
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The type of inheritance shown when a red-flowering plant is crossed with a white-flowering plant and only pink-flowering plants are produced is _____.

Refer to this diagram to answer #16-19.
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If individual III-2 (XhY)marries a person with the same genotype as individual I-1 (XHXH), what is the chance that one of their children will be afflicted with hemophilia?

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What type of inheritance pattern does the trait represented by the shaded symbols in the figure above illustrate?

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For the trait being followed in the pedigree, individuals II-1 and II-4 in the figure above can be classified as _____.

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What is the relationship between individual I-1 and individual III-2 in the figure above?

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An individual of phenotype XBXB marries an individual whose phenotype is XbY. What is the chance of the couple having a colorblind male if colorblindness is recessive (Xb)?

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When red and yellow spotted beetles are mated, 1/4 of the offspring are red, 2/4 are red and yellow spotted, and 1/4 are yellow. This trait is one controlled by _____.

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Two parents who have good health are surprised when their child is born with cystic fibrosis, and autosomal recessive disorder which affects the lungs and digestive system. What are the genotypes of the parents?

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A man heterozygous for blood type A marries a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their child will have type O blood is _____.

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What is the term for cells with two sets of chromosomes?

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What process halves the number of chromosomes in cells?

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What is the significance of crossing-over in meiosis?

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What is shown in the image above?

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At the end of meiosis, there are

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How many chromosomes are in a human gamete?

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An organism has 38 chromosomes in a body cell. After mitosis each cell has 38 chromosomes. After meiosis each gamete has ____________________ chromosomes.

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Which process increases genetic diversity?

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How are cells created in mitosis different from those in meiosis?

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Which of the karyotypes shown is from a normal female?

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What type of mutation is shown?

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What type of mutation is shown?

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For each of the genotypes below determine what phenotypes would be possible.
Purple flowers (P) are dominant to white (p), Brown eyes (B) are dominant to blue (b).
PP = __________ ; Pp = __________ ; pp = __________ ; BB = __________ ; Bb = __________ ; bb = __________