What is Inheritance
By G Davidson
1. What an organism looks like is called its .
2. We can study inheritance on a family tree.
True
False
3. What is another word for "true breeding"?
4. If 2 heterozygous pea plants are crossed, what are the chances of there being recessive offspring?
none
1 in 2
1 in 4
all
5. What do we call a fertilised egg cell?
6. If a characteristic is masked by another characteristic, it is said to be .
7. A gamete contains a double set of chromosomes.
8. What word do we use to describe different forms of the same gene?
9. Which of the following genotypes would represent a human male?
XX
XY
YY
10. How many pairs of chromosomes are found in a normal human cell?
23
46
92
0