Life Science: Life's Structure and Function, Book A

Section 1: Genetics

Self-Check Quiz-Eng.

1.
__________ studies how traits are inherited though the interactions of alleles.
A)Genetics
B)Mitosis
C)Probability
D)Regeneration
2.
Which process separates chromosomes?
A)meiosis
B)pedigree
C)inheritance
D)chemosynthesis
3.
Which topic in mathematics did Mendel use to help explain heredity?
A)algebra
B)calculus
C)probability
D)geometry
4.
Which of these is an organism that produces the same traits in every generation?
A)a purebred
B)a hybrid
C)a pea plant
D)a chromosome
5.
__________ is the process Mendel used to pollinate flowers of short plants with pollen from tall plants.
A)Polygenic inheritance
B)Genetics
C)Cross-pollination
D)Mitosis
6.
Which is a tool that is used to predict genetic crosses?
A)a slide rule
B)a tally sheet
C)a Venn diagram
D)a Punnett square
7.
Mendel's pea plants were __________ for the tall-dominant trait.
A)heterozygous
B)pedigrees
C)homozygous
D)variable
8.
Which of these describes how an organism looks?
A)its probability
B)its phenotype
C)its hybrid
D)its zygosity
9.
Where are the alleles for each parent written when using a Punnett square?
A)across the top and along the side of the grid
B)in the top two squares of the grid
C)in the bottom two squares of the grid
D)only at the bottom of the grid
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