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