- 1. Many characteristics of organisms are past on to their
A) offspring
B) inherited
C) scientist
- 2. A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring is an
A) inherited being
B) inherited trait
C) inherited scientist
- 3. Two brown-haired human parents might have a child with
A) orange hair
B) brown hair
C) blond hair
- 4. Some behaviors are also
A) inherited
B) traits
C) dominant
- 5. Gregor Mendel was a monk and
A) baker
B) scientist
C) barber
- 6. Gregor Mendel observed that some____ plants were tall while others were ______
A) pea, short
B) tulip, short
C) rose, short
- 7. In 1857 Mendel began experimenting by breeding different pea plants. This is called _________________.
A) cross-inheritance
B) crosstraining
C) crossbreeding
- 8. Mendel hypothesized that every trait is controlled by a pair of ________.
A) traits
B) results
C) factors
- 9. In peas, tallness is a strong trait, or _________ trait.
A) neither
B) recessive
C) dominant
- 10. Shortness is a weak trait, or ___________ trait.
A) recessive
B) neither
C) dominant
- 11. ___________ contain the DNA codes for all the traits an organism inherits.
A) dominant
B) genes
C) recessive
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