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What control the development of sexual characteristics. In humans these are called the X and Y chromosomes?
a) Human chromosomes
b) Sex Chromosomes
c) DNA
d) Mitosis

What is a female sex cell?
a) sperm
b) egg
c) cell
d) chromosome

What is a male sex cell?
a) egg
b) sperm
c) chromosomes
d) cell

What is a type of cell division that results in 4 sex cells (sperm or egg) that each possess half the number of chromosomes from the original cell?
a) Mitosis
b) Meiosis
c) Fertilization
d) Sexual Reproduction

What is a type of cell division where the nucleus divides and results in 2 genetically identical cells from a single parent which are identical to the original?
a) Mitosis
b) Meiosis
c) Fertilization
d) Sexual Reproduction

What is reproduction in which the sex cells from two parents unite to produce offspring that share traits from both parents?
a) Sexual Reproduction
b) Asexual Reproduction
c) Fertilization
d) Mitosis

What is reproduction that does not involve the union of sex cells and in which one parent produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent?
a) Sexual Reproduction
b) Fertilization
c) Asexual Reproduction
d) Meiosis

What is a molecule that is present in all living cells and that contains the information that determines the traits that a living thing inherits and needs to live?
a) DNA
b) Gamete
c) Egg
d) Sperm

What is the passing of genetic material from parent to offspring?
a) Heredity
b) Genetics
c) Fertilization
d) Codominance

What are segments of DNA found in chromosomes that give instructions for producing a certain characteristic?
a) Genes
b) Alleles
c) Genotypes
d) Phenotypes

What are different versions of a gene?
a) Genes
b) Allele
c) Genotypes
d) Phenotypes

What contributes to the phenotype if one or two copies are present in the genotype?
a) Dominant
b) Recessive
c) Allele
d) Heredity

What contributes to the phenotype only when two copies of it are present in the genotype?
a) Dominant
b) Recessive
c) Allele
d) Heredity

What is the combination of alleles you inherited from your parents?
a) Genotype
b) Phenotype
c)
d)

What are your observable traits?
a) Genotype
b) Phenotype
c)
d)

What is a graphic used to predict the possible genotypes of an offspring in a given cross?
a) Punnet Sqaure
b) Pedigree
c) Heredity Box
d)

What is the graphic that traces the occurrence of a trait through generations of a family?
a) Punnett Square
b) Pedigree
c) Family Tree
d)

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