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- Q1An organism’s genotype is its:homozygoushair colorphysical appearancegenetic makeup30sEditDelete
- Q2Scientists call an organism that has two of the same alleles for a trait a:purebredhybridfactorheterozygous30sEditDelete
- Q3Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait a:homozygouspurebredfactorheterozygous30sEditDelete
- Q4The different forms of a gene are:genesfactorsallelestraits30sEditDelete
- Q5The hidden or masked form of a trait in a hybrid is:dominanthomozygousheterozygousrecessive30sEditDelete
- Q6The part of a chromosome that determines inheritance and expression of a trait is a:hybridchromosomegeneDNA30sEditDelete
- Q7What does the notation Tt mean to geneticists?two recessive allelesat least one recessive alleletwo dominant allelesone dominant allele & one recessive allele30sEditDelete
- Q8In genetics, the appearance of a trait in an individual is the:genotypephenotypealleleallele30sEditDelete
- Q9The form of a trait that prevents the expression of its companion in a pair is:recessivea hybriddominantan allele30sEditDelete
- Q10An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is:heterozygousco-dominanthomozygousdominant30sEditDelete
- Q11Who is known as the father of genetics?Isaac NewtonPaul HarveyGregor MendelRobert Hooke30sEditDelete
- Q12What is an offspring?where an aquifer comes out of the grounda young organismrunning watera dead organism30sEditDelete
- Q13Where do we get our genes?our grandparentsboth mother and fatherfather onlymother only30sEditDelete
- Q14The passing of genetic information from parent to offspring is called:hereditychromosomesgeneticsgenes30sEditDelete
- Q15What is the genetic material that controls an organism's inherited traits called?chromosomeshereditytraitscharateristics30sEditDelete
- Q16Where are chromosomes found?in the cell wallin the vacuolein the mitochondriain the nucleus30sEditDelete
- Q17How many chromosomes do humans have in each cell?10 pairs, total of 2046 pairs, total of 9223 pairs, total of 4622 pairs, total of 4430sEditDelete
- Q18What are traits?people with brown hair and blue eyescharacteristics or qualities that make us who we areinteractions with an individual's environmentgray areas between two extremes30sEditDelete
- Q19Video game skills are not inherited. What evidence best supports this claim?People who are good at video games are from one country.People who are good at video games also do well in school.People who are good at video games have to practice and memorize moves.People who are good at video games get this from their parents.30sEditDelete
- Q20List the correct order from smallest to largest:gene, DNA, chromosomes, nucleuschromosomes, DNA, nucleus, genegene, chromosomes, DNA, nucleusnucleus, chromosomes, DNA, gene30sEditDelete