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  • 1. Meiosis is a type of cell division that will produce
A) Exact copies of the parent cell
B) Packets of pollen to be transferred between the abdomen of insects
C) 2 new somatic cells
D) The male and female sex cells
  • 2. What did Gregor Mendel use in his genetic studies?
A) Sweet Corn
B) Ravens
C) Garden Peas
D) Marigolds
  • 3. DNA sequences that control traits are called
A) Characteristics
B) Genes
C) Recessive
D) Purebred
E) Dominant
  • 4. Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait
A) Heterozygous
B) Genotype
C) Homozygous Recessive
D) Homozygous Dominant
E) Genes
  • 5. If alleles are written TT, it means the organism would be
A) Homozygous Recessive
B) Genes
C) Homozygous Dominant
D) Heterozygous
E) Genotype
  • 6. If alleles are written tt, it means the organism would be
A) Genotype
B) Genes
C) Heterozygous
D) Homozygous Recessive
E) Homozygous Dominant
  • 7. What does a Punnett Square show?
A) All of Mendel’s discoveries about genetic crosses.
B) Only the dominant alleles in a genetic cross.
C) Only the recessive alleles in a genetic cross.
D) Predict the rate of recessive lethal traits in offspring.
E) A model of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.
  • 8. If a homozygous white guinea pig (bb) is crossed with a homozygous white guinea pig (bb), what is the probability that the offspring will have black hair?
A) 0%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) 100%
E) 25%
  • 9. An organisms physical appearance is its
A) Inheritance
B) Phenotype
C) Heterozygous
D) Genotype
E) Homozygous
  • 10. An organisms actual genes is its
A) Heterozygous
B) Inheritance
C) Homozygous
D) Phenotype
E) Genotype
  • 11. During the process of ______, 2 daughter cells will be created with identical DNA.
A) Protein Synthesis
B) Mitosis
C) DNA Replication
D) Meiosis
  • 12. During the process of ______, 4 daughter cells will be created with different DNA pattern.
A) Meiosis
B) Mitosis
C) Protein Synthesis
D) DNA Replication
  • 13. How many chromosomes are found in human body cells?
A) 72
B) 35
C) 26
D) 46
E) 23
  • 14. How many chromosomes are found in human sex cells?
A) 46
B) 23
C) 35
D) 72
E) 26
  • 15. Which combination will result in an offspring being female?
A) XX
B) XYY
C) XY or XX
D) XY
E) XXX
  • 16. Instars show growth and development in which stage of the life cycle?
A) Adult
B) Larva
C) Adolescence
D) Egg
E) Pupa
  • 17. An example of metamorphosis would be …
A) Puberty
B) Snake shedding skin
C) Growing facial hair
D) Maturing of underdeveloped structures
E) Larva to butterfly
  • 18. “Float like a Lepidoptera, sting like a Hymenoptera.” What organisms are included in the order Lepidoptera?
A) Moths and Wasps
B) Bees and Wasps
C) Dragonflies and Dung Beetles
D) Butterflies and Moths
E) Butterflies and Bees
  • 19. The Chrysalis is present during which stage of the life cycle?
A) Pupa
B) Larva
C) Adolescence
D) Adult
E) Egg
  • 20. What structure do butterflies use to pass genetic information from male to female?
A) Antennae
B) Spermatophore
C) Proboscis
D) Leg
E) Abdomen
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