- 1. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of what field of study?
A) Physics
B) Astronomy
C) Botany
D) Genetics
- 2. In what year did Gregor Mendel publish his work on genetics?
A) 1800
B) 1900
C) 2000
D) 1866
- 3. What term is used to describe the unit of heredity Mendel studied?
A) Chromosome
B) Protein
C) Nucleus
D) Gene
- 4. What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup?
A) Phenotype
B) Genotype
C) Heredity
D) Mutation
- 5. Which of the following describes a genotype with two different alleles for a gene?
A) Recessive
B) Homozygous
C) Heterozygous
D) Dominant
- 6. Mendel demonstrated that traits are inherited independently during which of his experiments?
A) Test cross
B) Backcross
C) Dihybrid cross
D) Monohybrid cross
- 7. In a monohybrid cross, how many traits are typically studied?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
- 8. In Mendel's experiments, what term describes the offspring resulting from a cross between the parental generations?
A) F1 generation
B) F2 generation
C) G1 generation
D) P generation
- 9. Mendel's Law of Segregation describes the separation of ________ during the formation of gametes.
A) Genes
B) Alleles
C) Traits
D) Chromosomes
- 10. What term describes the appearance of an organism resulting from its genotype?
A) Heredity
B) Genotype
C) Mutation
D) Phenotype
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