This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Plant > Genetics > Principles Of Genetics – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Genetics Quiz 31 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait are said to A) Homozygous. B) Hybrid. C) Heterozygous. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homozygous. 2. How is Huntington's Disease inherited? A) Problems during pregnancy. B) Dominant trait. C) Environmental problems. D) Recessive Trait. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dominant trait. 3. A homozygous recessive genotype is shown by which of the following? (3B1) A) Tt. B) Tt. C) TS. D) TT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tt. 4. In pea plants, green is dominant to yellow. A green pea plant (Gg) is crossed with a yellow pea plant (gg). What are all the possible genotypes that result from this set of parents? A) Gg. B) GG, Gg, gg. C) Gg. D) Gg, gg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gg, gg. 5. A trait that is always expressed if present is ..... A) Recessive. B) True. C) Dominant. D) Strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dominant. 6. Results from a crosses between parents with different traits A) Gamete. B) Gene. C) Allele. D) Hybrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hybrid. 7. The color black is dominant in guinea pigs. The phenotypes of homozygous black guinea pigs and heterozygous black guinea pigs are: A) Black. B) Gray. C) BB and Bb. D) White. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black. 8. Through conducting many experiments with pea plants, Gregor Mendel discovered three basic principles that guide the inheritance of traits. Which concept is a part of his explanation? A) Codominance. B) Dominance. C) Multiple alleles. D) Sex linkage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dominance. 9. In rats, black coat color (B) is dominant to white coat color (b). When a black rat was crossed with a white rat, some white offspring occurred. What was the genotype of the black rat? A) Bb. B) BB. C) Bb. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bb. 10. Sex-Linked traits affect more A) Males. B) Females. C) They affect females and males equally. D) There is no such thing as a sex-linked trait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Males. 11. The letter P in a "P" Generation stands for: A) Probability. B) Punnet. C) Parent. D) Puppy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parent. 12. Likelihood that a particular event will occur is known as A) Fact. B) Guess. C) Probability. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Probability. 13. Mendel's principles of genetics apply to which organisms? A) Pea plants only. B) Plants only. C) Animals only. D) All organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All organisms. 14. What are sex cells that contain only one set of chormosomes? A) Eggs. B) Zygotes. C) Sperm. D) Gametes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gametes. 15. In Andalusian fowls, black individuals (BB) and white individuals (bb) are homozygous. Heterozygous individuals are grey (Bb). Cross a black fowl with a white fowl. What is the phenotype ratio? A) 2 black:2 grey:0 white. B) 0 black:4 grey:0 white. C) 4 black:0 grey:0 white. D) 0 black:2 grey:2 white. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0 black:4 grey:0 white. 16. A heterozygous tall pea plant is crossed with a short plant. The probability that an F1 plant will be tall is A) 75%. B) 25%. C) 100%. D) 50%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50%. 17. What does the prefix homo- in homozygous mean? A) Humans. B) Dating. C) Different. D) Same. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Same. 18. What does a Punnent square determine? A) How many offspring there will be. B) The genotype of an offspring. C) How likely a genotype will appear in an offspring. D) The phenotype of an offspring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How likely a genotype will appear in an offspring. 19. In chickens, feather color is codominant. If a black chicken BB is mated with one that is black and white (BW) what are the chances of having a chicken that is black and white? A) 0%. B) 25%. C) 50%. D) 100%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50%. 20. Reduction division that produces gamete A) Translation. B) Replication. C) Meiosis. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meiosis. 21. Multiple allelism is due to A) Presence of two alleles in population. B) Presence of more than two alleles in population. C) None of the above. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Presence of more than two alleles in population. 22. Two heterozygous people marry. Each has a dominant allele C for curly hair and a recessive allele c for straight hair. Using a Punnette square, determine the phenotypic ratio, curly hair:straight hair, in their children A) 1:2:1. B) 3:1. C) 9:3:3:1. D) 1:3:1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3:1. 23. What is the genotype for a pea plant heterozygous for round seeds (R), and homozygous recessive for green seeds (y)? A) RrYy. B) Rryy. C) RrYy. D) Ry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rryy. 24. In humans, blood types exhibit both dominance, codominance, and multiple alleles. The following genotypes are listed for each blood type.AA or AO= Type A OO= Type O BB or BO= Type BAB= Type AB ..... Parent 1:Homozygous for Type A BloodParent 2:Type O BloodWhat is the probability of getting type A? A) 25%. B) 0%. C) 50%. D) 100%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100%. 25. Homozygous is when ..... A) The alleles are the same. B) The alleles are different. C) The alleles are absent. D) The alleles are present. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The alleles are the same. 26. When the genotype consists of a dominant and a recessive allele, the phenotype will be like the ..... allele. A) Dominant. B) Recessive. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dominant. 27. An allele represented by a lower case letter. The allele that masked or hidden. A) Recessive. B) Large. C) Little. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recessive. 28. Why did Mendel conduct experiments on pea plants A) They have many different characteristics that have two distinct forms. B) They are self-pollinating (can fertilize themselves) because each flower has both male and female parts. C) They are "low maintenance" plants-Easy to care for-Rapid life cycle. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 29. Identify the homozygous recessive genotype: A) RR. B) Rr. C) Rr. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rr. 30. If two parents who are homozygous recessive for a certain trait are crossed, what is the probability of having a child who does not have their trait? A) 1 (100%). B) 0. C) 0.25 (25%). D) 0.5 (50%). 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