Q3 Test Multiple Choice
  • 1. Meiosis is a type of cell division that will produce
A) 2 new somatic cells
B) Exact copies of the parent cell
C) The male and female sex cells
D) Packets of pollen to be transferred between the abdomen of insects
  • 2. What did Gregor Mendel use in his genetic studies?
A) Marigolds
B) Sweet Corn
C) Garden Peas
D) Ravens
  • 3. DNA sequences that control traits are called
A) Characteristics
B) Genes
C) Dominant
D) Recessive
E) Purebred
  • 4. Scientists call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait
A) Homozygous Dominant
B) Genes
C) Heterozygous
D) Homozygous Recessive
E) Genotype
  • 5. If alleles are written TT, it means the organism would be
A) Heterozygous
B) Homozygous Recessive
C) Homozygous Dominant
D) Genotype
E) Genes
  • 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) All of Mendel’s discoveries about genetic crosses.
B) Only the recessive alleles in a genetic cross.
C) A model of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.
D) Predict the rate of recessive lethal traits in offspring.
E) Only the dominant 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) 100%
B) 50%
C) 25%
D) 75%
E) 0%
  • 9. An organisms physical appearance is its
A) Heterozygous
B) Inheritance
C) Phenotype
D) Homozygous
E) Genotype
  • 10. An organisms actual genes is its
A) Inheritance
B) Phenotype
C) Genotype
D) Heterozygous
E) Homozygous
  • 11. During the process of ______, 2 daughter cells will be created with identical DNA.
A) Protein Synthesis
B) DNA Replication
C) Meiosis
D) Mitosis
  • 12. During the process of ______, 4 daughter cells will be created with different DNA pattern.
A) DNA Replication
B) Meiosis
C) Mitosis
D) Protein Synthesis
  • 13. How many chromosomes are found in human body cells?
A) 23
B) 46
C) 72
D) 35
E) 26
  • 14. How many chromosomes are found in human sex cells?
A) 35
B) 46
C) 23
D) 26
E) 72
  • 15. Which combination will result in an offspring being female?
A) XXX
B) XX
C) XY
D) XYY
E) XY or XX
  • 16. Instars show growth and development in which stage of the life cycle?
A) Adolescence
B) Larva
C) Egg
D) Pupa
E) Adult
  • 17. An example of metamorphosis would be …
A) Snake shedding skin
B) Puberty
C) Larva to butterfly
D) Growing facial hair
E) Maturing of underdeveloped structures
  • 18. “Float like a Lepidoptera, sting like a Hymenoptera.” What organisms are included in the order Lepidoptera?
A) Butterflies and Bees
B) Dragonflies and Dung Beetles
C) Bees and Wasps
D) Moths and Wasps
E) Butterflies and Moths
  • 19. The Chrysalis is present during which stage of the life cycle?
A) Egg
B) Adult
C) Pupa
D) Adolescence
E) Larva
  • 20. What structure do butterflies use to pass genetic information from male to female?
A) Abdomen
B) Antennae
C) Leg
D) Proboscis
E) Spermatophore
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