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Chapter 11 Interactive Activity
Introduction to Genetics
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1. What is the principle of
dominance?
A. A guiding principal of nationalization.
B. A type of animal behavior insuring
leadership.
C. When principals make rules for a school.
D. One gene will show in the phenotype when
another of a similar type needs two to show.
2.
What happens during
segregation?
A. Chromosomes separate at the
centromeres.
B. Chromosomes separate to form the
egg and sperm.
C. Chromosomes separate during
anaphase.
D. Chromosomes separate during
telophase.
3. How
do geneticists use the
principles of probability?
A. To increase their chances of winning the
lottery.
B. To predict outcomes of genetic crosses.
C. To predict outcomes of NASCAR races.
D. To predict genetic mutations.
4. How do geneticists use
Punnett squares?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Used to predict genetic crosses.
Used to compare genetic crosses.
Used to predict genetic mutations.
Used to predict and compare genetic
crosses.
5. What is the principle of
independent assortment?
A. Genes for different traits segregate
independently during gamete formation.
B.Genes for different traits segregate
dependently during gamete formation.
C.Genes for the same traits segregate
independently during gamete formation.
D.Genes for the same traits segregate
dependently during gamete formation.
6. What inheritance patterns exist aside from simple
dominance?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Incomplete dominance
Codominance
Multiple alleles
Polygenic inheritance
A & B only
All answers are correct
7. What
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
happens during the process of meiosis?
Chromosome number changes from haploid to diploid.
Chromosome number changes from diploid to haploid.
4 cells are produced.
2 cells are produced.
B & D are correct.
B & C are correct.
A & D are correct.
A & C are correct.
8. How is meiosis different from
mitosis?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Meiosis ends with 2 cells.
Meiosis makes diploid cells.
Meiosis has a single division.
Meiosis ends with 4 haploid gametes.
9. What structures actually assort
independently?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Chromosomes
Alleles
Genes
Nucleotides