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Genetics Vocabulary

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10 questions

Note from the author:

Quiz over vocabulary term for genetics

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Question 1

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What is Heredity?

Scientific study of genes

Scientific study of all living things

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

Two identical alleles

Question 2

2.

What is genetics?

Scientific study of genes

Scientific study of all living things

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

Two identical alleles

Question 3

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How many chromosomes do you have?

46 from each parent

48 total

24 from each parent

23 from each parent

Question 4

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How is an allele different from a gene?

An allele controls what you have a gene just contains DNA

A gene is a characteristic like hair color, an allele is specific like brown hair

An allele is a characteristic like hair color a gene is specific like red hair

A gene is the code for who you are, alleles show what you parents look like

Question 5

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How would you represent a dominant allele?

Question 6

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How would you repesent a recessive allele?

Question 7

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What does having a dominant allele mean?

That the recessive trait will show up

That the dominant trait will show up only if there is no recessive trait

It means nothing, that trait that shows up has nothing to do with dominant alleles

That the dominant trait will show up

Question 8

8.

Which is the best description of a phenotype?

Genetic makeup

Physical appearance

The combination of alleles

The alleles that you get from your parents

Question 9

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Which would represent the following Homozygous recessive, Homozygous dominant, Heterozygous

Tt, tt, TT

TT, Tt, tt

tt, TT, Tt

Tt, TT, tt

Question 10

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The ability to roll your tongue is a dominant trait (T), non tongue rolling is recessive (t). Which of the following combinations would allow a person to roll their tongue?

TT

Tt

tt

tT