QUIZ TIME!!! Take out your pens and paper!!!!!!!!

#1: Egyptian Mau cats are genetically crossed for certain lengths of fur. A breeder knows that short hair is dominant over long hair. If 75% of the kittens are born with short hair, what are the parents’ most likely genotypes? A: the male is a heterozygous, short-haired cat, and the female a homozygous short-haired cat. B: the male is a homozygous, long-haired cat, and the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat. C: the male is a homozygous, short-haired cat, and the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat. D: the male is a heterozygous, short-haired cat, and the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat.

#2: Brown eye color is dominant to blue eye color. A heterozygous brown eyed father and a blue eyed mother have four children. Which statement best describes the children’s predicted phenotypes? A: 50% of children will have brown eyes, and 50% will have blue. B: 75% of the children will have brown eyes and 25% will have blue. C: 75% of the children will have blue eyes and 25% will have brown. D: 100% of the children will have brown eyes.

#3: Which genetic cross will produce all heterozygous offspring? A: RR x rr B: rr x rr C: RR x RR D: Rr x Rr

#4: What kind of letter represents homozygotes? A: RR B: Rr

#5: What kind of letter represents heterozygotes? A: RR B: Rr

#6: The offspring of a mating can be affected, not affected, or ________ by a trait. A: Re- affected B: Determined C: Defected D: Carried

#7: How many Laws does Mendel have? A: 3 B: 6 C: 2 D: 1

#8: What was one of Mendel’s Laws? A: The Law of Conservation of Mass. B: The Law of Segregation of Characteristics. C: The Law of Recessiveness. D: The Law of Intensity of Alleles.

#9: What was Mendel’s first job? A: Zookeeper B: Biologist C: Geneticist D: Gardener

#10: What was the name of Mendel’s paper? What year was it published? A: “Experiments on Plant Hybridization” ; 1866 B: “Experimenting with Nature” ; 1868 C: “Experiments on Plant Hybridization” ; 1868 D: “Experimenting with Nature” ; 1866

#11: What things did he study? A: Pea plants and human babies B: Pea plants and honeybees C: Chickens and lima beans D: Garbanzo beans and lima beans

#12: For what reason did he quit his studies? A: He grew tired of genetics B: He got Ebola C: His father died D: He became an abbot

#13: What did Mendel study as a gardener? A: Weeds B: Butterflies C: Bees D: Honey

#14: What is a Phenotype? A: The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment. B: The genetic makeup of an organism that is determined by a trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits. C: Having dissimilar pairs of genes for any given hereditary characteristic. D: Having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.

#15: What is the Law of Independent Assortment? A: It states that for a characteristic, two phenotypes can be present. B: It states that the genes for two characteristics are inherited independently. C: It states that genes are assorted independently. D: It states that out of a pair of characteristics, only one can be represented in a reproductive cell.