Q3 Test Multiple Choice
  • 1. Meiosis is a type of cell division that will produce
A) The male and female sex cells
B) 2 new somatic cells
C) Packets of pollen to be transferred between the abdomen of insects
D) Exact copies of the parent cell
  • 2. What did Gregor Mendel use in his genetic studies?
A) Sweet Corn
B) Garden Peas
C) Marigolds
D) Ravens
  • 3. DNA sequences that control traits are called
A) Recessive
B) Genes
C) Purebred
D) Dominant
E) Characteristics
  • 4. Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait
A) Genotype
B) Homozygous Dominant
C) Heterozygous
D) Homozygous Recessive
E) Genes
  • 5. If alleles are written TT, it means the organism would be
A) Homozygous Dominant
B) Genotype
C) Heterozygous
D) Genes
E) Homozygous Recessive
  • 6. If alleles are written tt, it means the organism would be
A) Homozygous Dominant
B) Genotype
C) Genes
D) Homozygous Recessive
E) Heterozygous
  • 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) A model of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.
D) Predict the rate of recessive lethal traits in offspring.
E) Only the recessive alleles in 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) 100%
B) 0%
C) 50%
D) 75%
E) 25%
  • 9. An organisms physical appearance is its
A) Inheritance
B) Phenotype
C) Heterozygous
D) Homozygous
E) Genotype
  • 10. An organisms actual genes is its
A) Phenotype
B) Heterozygous
C) Inheritance
D) Homozygous
E) Genotype
  • 11. During the process of ______, 2 daughter cells will be created with identical DNA.
A) Meiosis
B) DNA Replication
C) Protein Synthesis
D) Mitosis
  • 12. During the process of ______, 4 daughter cells will be created with different DNA pattern.
A) DNA Replication
B) Meiosis
C) Mitosis
D) Protein Synthesis
  • 13. How many chromosomes are found in human body cells?
A) 72
B) 35
C) 23
D) 26
E) 46
  • 14. How many chromosomes are found in human sex cells?
A) 23
B) 35
C) 72
D) 26
E) 46
  • 15. Which combination will result in an offspring being female?
A) XY or XX
B) XYY
C) XXX
D) XX
E) XY
  • 16. Instars show growth and development in which stage of the life cycle?
A) Adult
B) Adolescence
C) Larva
D) Egg
E) Pupa
  • 17. An example of metamorphosis would be …
A) Growing facial hair
B) Puberty
C) Maturing of underdeveloped structures
D) Larva to butterfly
E) Snake shedding skin
  • 18. “Float like a Lepidoptera, sting like a Hymenoptera.” What organisms are included in the order Lepidoptera?
A) Butterflies and Bees
B) Moths and Wasps
C) Dragonflies and Dung Beetles
D) Bees and Wasps
E) Butterflies and Moths
  • 19. The Chrysalis is present during which stage of the life cycle?
A) Egg
B) Larva
C) Adult
D) Pupa
E) Adolescence
  • 20. What structure do butterflies use to pass genetic information from male to female?
A) Antennae
B) Proboscis
C) Spermatophore
D) Leg
E) Abdomen
Students who took this test also took :

Created with That Quiz — the site for test creation and grading in math and other subjects.