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Genetic Vocabulary Quiz

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Question 1
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What are genes?

Question 2
2.

What are traits?

Question 3
3.

How What letter is used to represent a dominant allele?

Question 4
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What is the role of DNA in an organism?

Question 5
5.

Which term refers to the different forms a gene can take?

Question 6
6.

What is a recessive allele?

Question 7
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What is a dominant allele?

Question 8
8.

What is the term for new organisms produced by a living thing

Question 9
9.

Match the correct term with the correct definitions

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Genotype
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The genetic make-up (the assemblage of alleles) of an individual
Phenotype
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The physical expression of an organism's genes
Homozygous
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Question 10
10.

Select the terms that also mean Heterozygous

Question 11
11.

Select the terms that also mean Homozygous

Question 12
12.

What genotype represents a homozygous dominant for round seeds? (R=Round, r=wrinkled)

Question 13
13.

What is the probability of producing a wrinkled seed from a cross of RR and Rr?
R=Round seed and r = wrinkled seed

Question 14
14.

How many alleles make up a genotype?

Question 15
15.

What percent chance will the offspring have a Qq when one parent is QQ and the other parent is qq. (Q = Green eyes, q= Blue eyes)

Question 16
16.

In humans, the presence of dimples, D, is dominant over the absence of dimples, d. Bob has no dimples, his wife Bobina has dimples, but Bobina's mom Bobolina has no dimples. Construct a Punnett square showing the possible genotypes of Bob and Bobina's children.
What is the probability of Bob and Bobina's children having dimples?

Question 17
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If (H) is dominant for curly hair, and (h) is straight hair.
What are the possible genotypes for the offspring of a father who has straight hair, who’s mother had curly hair and the mother with curly hair whose father has straight hair.

Possessing a pair of identical alleles for a particular gene
Heterozygous
Possessing a pair of unlike alleles for a particular gene
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Hh, hh
HH, Hh
HH, hh