Genetics
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- Q1An organism’s genotype is its:homozygoushair colorphysical appearancegenetic makeup30s
- Q2Scientists call an organism that has two of the same alleles for a trait a:purebredhybridfactorheterozygous30s
- Q3Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait a:homozygouspurebredfactorheterozygous30s
- Q4The different forms of a gene are:genesfactorsallelestraits30s
- Q5The hidden or masked form of a trait in a hybrid is:dominanthomozygousheterozygousrecessive30s
- Q6The part of a chromosome that determines inheritance and expression of a trait is a:hybridchromosomegeneDNA30s
- Q7What does the notation Tt mean to geneticists?two recessive allelesat least one recessive alleletwo dominant allelesone dominant allele & one recessive allele30s
- Q8In genetics, the appearance of a trait in an individual is the:genotypephenotypealleleallele30s
- Q9The form of a trait that prevents the expression of its companion in a pair is:recessivea hybriddominantan allele30s
- Q10An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is:heterozygousco-dominanthomozygousdominant30s
- Q11Who is known as the father of genetics?Isaac NewtonPaul HarveyGregor MendelRobert Hooke30s
- Q12What is an offspring?where an aquifer comes out of the grounda young organismrunning watera dead organism30s
- Q13Where do we get our genes?our grandparentsboth mother and fatherfather onlymother only30s
- Q14The passing of genetic information from parent to offspring is called:hereditychromosomesgeneticsgenes30s
- Q15What is the genetic material that controls an organism's inherited traits called?chromosomeshereditytraitscharateristics30s