Genetics Final Exam Questions & Correct SolutionsGenetics Final Exam Questions & Correct SolutionsGenetics Final Exam Questions & Correct SolutionsGenetics Final Exam Questions & Correct SolutionsGenetics Final Exam Questions & Correct SolutionsGregor Mendel was:
a) an English scientist who carrie...
a) an English scientist who carried out research with Charles Darwin
b) a little known Central European monk
c) an early 20th century Dutch biologist who carried out genetics research - ANSWER B
Which of the following statements is true about Mendel?
a) His discoveries concerning genetic inheritance were generally accepted by the scientific community
when he published them during the mid 19th century.
b) He believed that genetic traits of parents will usually blend in their children.
c) His ideas about genetics apply equally to plants and animals. - ANSWER C
Mendel believed that the characteristics of pea plants are determined by the:
a) inheritance of units or factors from both parents
b) inheritance of units or factors from one parent
c) relative health of the parent plants at the time of pollination - ANSWER A
An allele is:
a) another word for a gene
b) a homozygous genotype
c) a heterozygous genotype
d) one of several possible forms of a gene - ANSWER D
The process of establishing the locations of genes on chromosomes is called?
A. Linkage
B. Mosaic
C. Recombination
D. Gene mapping - ANSWER D
What are bacteriophages? - ANSWER viruses that infect bacterial cells
, What bases are Purines and Pyrimidines and what is the difference between the two? - ANSWER
Purines: Adenine & Guanine
Pyrimidines: Thymine & Cytosine & Uracil ( in RNA )
Purine: a nitrogenous base containing a double ring
Pyrimidine: a nitrogenous base containing only one ring
Phenotype refers to the ______________________ of an individual.
a) genetic makeup
b) actual physical appearance
c) recessive alleles - ANSWER B
When the genotype consists of a dominant and a recessive allele, the phenotype will be like
_________________ allele.
a) the dominant
b) the recessive
c) neither - ANSWER A
Assuming that both parent plants in the diagram below are homozygous, why would all of the f1
generation have yellow phenotypes?
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diagram showing the result of cross-pollination in the first 2 offspring generations--in generation f1 all
are yellow peas but in generation f2 the ratio of yellow to green peas is 3 to 1
a) because the f1 genotypes are homozygous
b) because yellow is dominant over green
c) because both parents passed on yellow alleles - ANSWER B
The idea that different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently is Mendel's principle of:
a) unit inheritance
b) segregation
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