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