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In mice, brown fur is dominant to white fur. Two brown mice reproduce and have 3 brown offspring and 1 white offspring. How is this possible?
a) White fur baby is because of a mutation
b) White fur baby is from different parents
c) Parents are heterozygous and white fur baby got recessive alleles
d) Parents are heterozygous and white fur baby got dominant alleles

One parent has AB blood, and the other has O blood. Which is a genotype their child could NOT have.
a) A blood
b) B blood
c) AB blood
d) None of the above

One form of a gene is called a(n)....
a) genotype
b) dominant
c) allele
d) recessive

Which is an example of a genotype?
a) Aa
b) Green eyes
c) Black Hair
d) Runs fast

Genetics is the study of...
a) Change over time
b) Life
c) Proteins
d) Inheritance

A cross between homozygous purple-flowered and homozygous white-flowered pea plants results in offspring with purple flowers. This is an example of
a) blending model of genetics
b) dominance
c) a mistake made by Mendel
d) dihybrid cross

An example of a polygenic trait is...
a) Attached/unattached earlobes
b) Skin color
c) Hairline shape
d) Intelligence

The genotype for a carrier for a disease is...
a) Homozygous dominant
b) Heterozygous
c) Homozygous recessive
d) Any of the above

More males are colorblind than females, because the trait is...
a) Sex-linked recessive
b) Sex-linked dominant
c) Autosomal
d) Co-dominant

Your friend has AB blood. This blood type is caused by...
a) Polygenics
b) Incomplete dominance
c) Codominant alleles
d) Acquired Traits

Traits carried on the X or Y chromosome are called ...
a) Sex-Linked
b) Autosomal
c) Polygenic
d) Codominant

You cross two yellow pea plants that are heterozygous for color (Yy). What percentage will be green?
a) 100%
b) 75%
c) 50%
d) 25%

A Punnet square shows what?
a) Potential offspring genotypes
b) Parents pehnotypes
c) Disease History
d) Evolutionary relationships

Which is heterozygous?
a) Aa
b) BB
c) cc
d) dd

Which is not a heritable trait?
a) Eye color
b) Ability to play sports
c) Having 5 fingers on each hand
d) Height

Who is called the father of genetics?
a) Charles Darwin
b) Carolus Linnaeus
c) Robert Hooke
d) Gregor Mendel

When heterozygotes show a blending (mixing) of the dominant and recessive phenotype, it is called what?
a) Multiple Alleles
b) Incomplete Dominance
c) Co-Dominance
d) Polygenic Trait

Most genes are coded by 2 alleles, where do the 2 copies come from?
a) In males, all from the dad
b) Half from mom, half from dad
c) Depends on the organism's gender
d) We cannot predict (guess) where they come from

A chart that shows a family's history of a disease is called what?
a) Pedigree
b) Family Tree
c) Cladogram
d) Punnett Square

Mendel made his discovery by studying...
a) rabbit offspring
b) fossils
c) bacteria and mice
d) pea plants

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