1. Test Taking Strategies

2. Multiple Choice Questions
Read the question accurately before you look at the answer.

3. Do Not Read the ANSWERS
If an individual possesses two recessive alleles for the same trait, the individual is said to be

4. Multiple Choice Questions
Come up with the answer in your head before looking at the possible answers, this way the choices given on the test won't throw you off or trick you.

5. If an individual possesses two recessive alleles for the same trait, the individual is said to be
What might be the correct response?

6. Multiple Choice Questions
Eliminate answers you know aren't right.

7. Eliminate Incorrect Answers
If an individual possesses two recessive alleles for the same trait, the individual is said to be
a. homozygous for the trait.
b. haploid for the trait.
c. heterozygous for the trait.
d. mutated.

8. Multiple Choice Questions
Read all the choices before choosing your answer.

9. Multiple Choice Questions
If there is no guessing penalty, always take an educated guess and select an answer.

10. The Process of Elimination
If you can eliminate two wrong answers, your chance of choosing the right answer is greater.

11. If you haven’t a clue then…
GUESS!!!
A 25% chance of being right beats a 100% chance of being wrong.

12. Multiple Choice Questions
Don't keep on changing your answer, usually your first choice is the right one, unless you misread the question.

13. Multiple Choice Questions
In "All of the above" if you are certain one of the statements is false don’t choose “All of the Above.
In "None of the above" choices, if you are certain one of the statements is true don't choose "None of the above“.

14. Multiple Choice Questions
In a question with an "All of the above" choice, if you see that at least two correct statements, then "All of the above" is probably the answer.

15. Multiple Choice Questions
A positive choice is more likely to be true than a negative one.

16. Positive Choice? Mendel concluded that traits are
a. not inherited by offspring.
b. inherited through the passing of factors from parents to offspring.
c. determined by dominant factors only.
d. determined by recessive factors only.

17. Multiple Choice Questions
Usually the correct answer is the choice with the most information.

18. Most Information?
A population that has a normal distribution of the range of heights has many individuals who are
a. tall and few who are average or very short.
b. short and few who are average or very tall.
c. average height and few who are very tall or very short.
d. average height and none who are very tall or very short.