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