This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Plant > Plant Genetics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Plant Genetics Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A pea plant produces 5 seeds. What percent of its alleles come from the mother? A) 10%. B) 20%. C) 25%. D) 50%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50%. 2. Define Genome Editing A) Technology that allows the development of new genes. B) Technology that allows the growth of new organs in a lab. C) Technology that allows a change to an organism's DNA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Technology that allows a change to an organism's DNA. 3. Heredity is the passing of traits from ..... to ..... A) Predators to prey. B) Water to rain. C) Parents to offspring. D) Fungi to protists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parents to offspring. 4. Gravitropism and ..... are the same thing. A) Geotropism. B) Phototropism. C) Thigmotropism. D) Triangular Prism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geotropism. 5. The enlarged base of the pistil that stores the eggs of the plant is the ..... A) Ovary. B) Ovule. C) Stigma. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ovary. 6. What is progeny testing A) Testing an animals performance for different traits. B) Comparing animals off spring with other animals off spring kept in the same conditions. C) Comparing an animal with other animals kept in the same conditions. D) Comparing animals off spring with other animals off spring kept in the different conditions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparing animals off spring with other animals off spring kept in the same conditions. 7. What happened to the green trait in Mendel's pea plants? A) It provide support to Darwin's theory of evolution by disappearing. B) The pea plants produced 50% less green seeds. C) It was hidden by the dominant yellow gene. D) The resulting plants were yellow/green-ish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was hidden by the dominant yellow gene. 8. If a pea plant has a recessive allele for green peas, it will produce A) Green peas if it also has a dominant allele for yellow peas. B) Green and yellow peas if it has a dominant allele for yellow. C) Green peas if it doesn't have a dominant allele for yellow peas. D) Yellow peas if it doesn't have a dominant allele for green peas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green peas if it doesn't have a dominant allele for yellow peas. 9. The mathematical chance that something will happen is known as..... A) Chance. B) Luck. C) Probability. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Probability. 10. Mendel studied pea traits including all EXCEPT A) Flower color. B) Pea shape. C) Root growth. D) Flower position on stems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root growth. 11. Turgor pressure can help plants move. Internal water pressure can cause- A) A wilted stem to return to an upright position. B) Leaves to fall off a tree in the autumn. C) The roots of a plant to grow downward. D) A seedling to be carried by the wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A wilted stem to return to an upright position. 12. In a seed, the plumule grows into..... A) The shoot. B) The leaves. C) The roots. D) The branch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The shoot. 13. At the very beginning of seed germination how will the mass of a seed change? A) It will increase slightly. B) It will decrease. C) It stays the same. D) It will increase significantly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will decrease. 14. What were the reasons Mendel selected the pea plant for his genetics experiments? Pick as many as apply. A) Few traits. B) Traits easy to observe. C) Grow quickly. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. What is performance testing A) Testing the performance of an animal in the same conditions to other animal kept in the same condition. B) Testing how an animal would perform in a play!. C) Testing the performance of an animal in the same conditions to its offspring kept in the same condition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Testing the performance of an animal in the same conditions to other animal kept in the same condition. 16. If a pea plant's alleles for height are tt, what is true of its parents? A) Both parents were tall. B) Both parents were short. C) Both parents contributed a recessive allele. D) Both parents contributed a dominant allele. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both parents contributed a recessive allele. 17. If a plant is going towards water it is showing A) Positive hydrotropism. B) Positive Geotropism. C) Negative hydrotropism. D) Positive Solar Radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive hydrotropism. 18. The plants that Gregor Mendel crosses to produce the F1 generation would be referred to as A) P1 and P. B) P1 and P3. C) P1 and P5. D) P1 and P2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) P1 and P2. 19. What is this definition of: determining differences in the genotype of an individual organism by examining its DNA & comparing it to a reference sequence of another organisms sequence. A) Phototyping. B) Genotyping. C) Progeny testing. D) Genetic engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genotyping. 20. The physical appearance or the way a gene looks is known as it's..... A) Genotype. B) Allele. C) Gene. D) Phenotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phenotype. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPlant Genetics Quiz 1Plant Genetics Quiz 2Plant Genetics Quiz 4Plant Biotechnology QuizPlant Breeding QuizPlant Pathology QuizPlant Physiology QuizPrinciples Of Genetics QuizPrinciples Of Plant Pathology Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books