Genetics Basics Quiz
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What is the basic unit of heredity?

  • Gene (correct)
  • DNA
  • Allele
  • Chromosome
  • Which of the following pairs of nitrogenous bases are found in DNA?

  • Adenine - Thymine, Cytosine - Guanine (correct)
  • Adenine - Thymine, Cytosine - Uracil
  • Uracil - Thymine, Cytosine - Guanine
  • Adenine - Uracil, Cytosine - Guanine
  • What is the term used to describe the combination of alleles an organism inherits from its parents?

  • Variation
  • Genotype (correct)
  • Heredity
  • Phenotype
  • Which of the following represents a dominant trait?

    <p>Capital letter</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the physical appearance or expression of traits in an organism?

    <p>Phenotype</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the diversity or differences between individuals or populations?

    <p>Variation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Law of Segregation?

    <p>Each inherited trait is defined by a gene pair, and parental genes are randomly separated to the sex cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the Law of Independent Assortment state?

    <p>Genes for different traits are sorted separately from one another so that the inheritance of one trait is not dependent on the inheritance of another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Law of Dominance?

    <p>An organism with alternate forms of a gene will express the form that is dominant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is complete dominance?

    <p>It occurs when one allele or version of a gene completely masks another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is incomplete dominance?

    <p>It refers to a circumstance in which the two copies of a gene for a particular trait, or alleles, combine so that neither dominates the other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is codominance?

    <p>It is a relationship between two versions of a gene where neither allele is recessive, and the phenotypes of both alleles are expressed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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