9 Questions
This school of thought on genetics was opposed to Mendelian inheritance principles in the early 1900s
biometricians
The F1 generation is always composed of organisms that are ______
heterozygotes
Genetic diseases caused by mutations in a single gene are called ______ disorders
Mendelian
In the Law of Complete Dominance, the ______ allele will be fully expressed while the other recessive allele will be masked
dominant
Mendel discovered that when he crossed a white-flowered plant (rr) with a purple-flowered plant (RR), the resulting F1 generation had all ______ flowers
purple
Farmers can use the Law of Complete Dominance to selectively breed plants or animals that have ______ characteristics
desirable
During meiosis, an individual's chromosomes can undergo a process known as ______ which involves the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes
recombination
The genes that determine ______ are found on chromosome 15
eye color
When a heterozygous plant (Rr) produces gametes, the R and r alleles ______ from each other and are randomly distributed into the gametes
separate
Test your knowledge of Mendelian inheritance with our quiz! From Gregor Mendel's pioneering work to the modern understanding of genetic inheritance, this quiz covers the basics of this fascinating field. Think you know all there is to know about dominant and recessive genes, Punnett squares, and inheritance patterns? Take the quiz and find out!
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