- 1. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of what field of study?
A) Botany
B) Genetics
C) Physics
D) Astronomy
- 2. In what year did Gregor Mendel publish his work on genetics?
A) 1900
B) 1800
C) 2000
D) 1866
- 3. What term is used to describe the unit of heredity Mendel studied?
A) Gene
B) Nucleus
C) Chromosome
D) Protein
- 4. What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup?
A) Genotype
B) Heredity
C) Mutation
D) Phenotype
- 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) Dihybrid cross
B) Monohybrid cross
C) Backcross
D) Test cross
- 7. In a monohybrid cross, how many traits are typically studied?
A) One
B) Three
C) Four
D) Two
- 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) F1 generation
D) G1 generation
- 9. Mendel's Law of Segregation describes the separation of ________ during the formation of gametes.
A) Alleles
B) Traits
C) Genes
D) Chromosomes
- 10. What term describes the appearance of an organism resulting from its genotype?
A) Genotype
B) Heredity
C) Mutation
D) Phenotype
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