Bio 101 Test Questions and Correct Answers

Bio 101 Test Questions and Correct Answers Define genetics - Answer-Is the science that deals with Heredity, or natural Inheritance. Who is the father of genetics? - Answer-Gregor Mendel was considered as the father of genetics because he was the first one to understand how DNA worked. Know the importance of the science of genetics. - Answer--helps us to understand how and why offsprings have a combination of their parents' traits. - It has improved food production - It has potential for solving problems related to inheritable human diseases - It has help to control population growth Know the blending theory of inheritance. - Answer-States that parents of constracting appearance produce offsprings with intermediate appearance. Who developed the concept of generation mapping? - Answer-Mendel with pea experiment, formulated four fundamental laws of heredity. What is Fillial? - Answer--having the relation of a child to a parent. -pertaining to the sequence of generations following the parental generation, each generation being designated by an F followed by a subscript number indicating its place in the sequence. F1 An alternative form of genes that are always at exactly the same position on homologous chromosomes is called: - Answer-Allele What is a dominant allele? - Answer-is the expressed alleles, identified by capital letter What is a recessive allele? - Answer-is the alleles that is not expressed, identified by small letter.