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