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Tay-Sachs is a recessive genetic disease in humans.If one parent is homozygous normal and the other is a carrier (heterozygous) ,what are the chances that their child will have this disease?


A) 0%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
E) 100%

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A woman who can roll her tongue (presumably dominant) is married to a man who cannot.Two of their four children can roll their tongues and two cannot.If A = roll tongue and a = cannot roll tongue,then what is the genotype of the parents?


A) woman Aa; man Aa
B) woman AA; man aa
C) woman Aa; man AA
D) woman Aa; man aa
E) woman aa; man aa

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What will the genotypic ratio be of a monohybrid cross of two individuals who are heterozygous for a trait?


A) 100% homozygous dominant
B) 100% homozygous recessive
C) 50% homozygous dominant, 50% homozygous recessive
D) 25% homozygous dominant, 50% heterozygous, 25% homozygous recessive
E) 50% homozygous dominant, 50% heterozygous

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Which is NOT true according to Mendel's law of segregation?


A) Each individual contains two factors for each trait.
B) One factor must be dominant and one factor recessive in each individual.
C) Factors separate from each other during gamete formation.
D) Each gamete contains one copy of each factor.
E) Fertilization restores the presence of two factors.

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You have two true-breeding rose bushes,one with red flowers and one with white flowers,a cross between these two roses yields a bush with white flowers that have red splotches.What condition does this demonstrate?


A) Codominance
B) Incomplete dominance
C) Environmental effects
D) Polygenetic inheritance
E) Monohybrid inheritance

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In which kind of cross could you expect to find of ratios of 1:1:1:1 among the offspring?


A) monohybrid cross
B) dihybrid cross
C) one trait test cross
D) two trait test cross
E) no cross will yield offspring in 1:1:1:1 ratios

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Cold weather can change the ______ of a Himalayan rabbit.


A) genotype
B) phenotype
C) alleles
D) sex
E) rate of genetic mutations

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What are alleles?


A) genes for different traits, such as hair color and eye color
B) alternative forms of a gene for a single trait, such as blue eyes or brown eyes
C) the locations of genes on a chromosome
D) recessive forms of a kind of characteristic carried by genes
E) dominant forms of a kind of characteristic carried by genes

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If an individual with a dominant phenotype is crossed with an individual with a recessive phenotype,4 of their 9 offspring show the recessive phenotype.What is the genotype of the dominant parent?


A) AA
B) Aa
C) aa
D) either AA or Aa
E) either Aa or aa

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Hydrangeas are a flowering plant with large showy blooms.When a plant is grown in aluminum rich soil it has blue flowers; if the same plant is transplanted into soil that is lacking aluminum the flowers produced will be pink.This is an example of


A) Codominance
B) Incomplete dominance
C) Environmental effects
D) Polygenetic inheritance
E) Monohybrid inheritance

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Which allele combination represents a recessive monohybrid trait?


A) aa
B) Aa
C) AA
D) ab
E) Ab

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In humans,aniridia,a type of blindness,is due to a dominant allele A.Migraine headaches are due to another dominant allele M.If a man who suffers from both conditions (AaMm) marries a woman who suffers from both (AaMm) ,what are the chances of an offspring having both traits?


A) 9/16
B) 3/16
C) 1/2
D) 1/16
E) 4/16

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A man with widow's peak (dominant) who can curl his tongue (dominant) has a child who has a continuous hairline and cannot curl the tongue.What is the genotype of the father?


A) WWTT
B) wwtt
C) WwTt
D) Wwtt
E) WT

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Which of the following would be considered a heterozygous dihybrid genotype?


A) Ww
B) sS
C) WWSs
D) WWss
E) WwSs

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The skin pigment melanin is expressed differently according to exposure to sunlight,with a greater production of the molecule with greater exposure.However,the degree of production can never exceed the inherited genetic level.What evolutionary advantage would be gained from having this phenotypic range for skin pigmentation?


A) Skin color is an example of polygenic inheritance.
B) It allows someone to get a tan when they want to.
C) Production of the molecule would only occur when necessary.
D) Changes in skin color allow humans to look healthier.
E) Skin color is an example of a codominant gene.

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If the probability of event A is 3/4 and the probability of event B is 1/4,then the probability of both A and B occurring at the same time is


A) 3/4.
B) 1/4.
C) 1 or absolute certainty.
D) 1/2.
E) 3/16.

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Unattached earlobes (EE or Ee) are dominant over attached earlobes (ee) .A couple both have unattached earlobes.Both notice that one of their parents on both sides have attached earlobes (ee) .Therefore,they correctly assume that they are carriers for attached earlobes (Ee) .If the couple proceeds to have four children,then


A) they can be certain that three will be heterozygous and one homozygous recessive.
B) if the first three are heterozygous, the fourth must be homozygous recessive.
C) the children must repeat the grandparents' genotype (Ee) .
D) all children must have unattached earlobes since both parents possess the dominant gene for it.
E) two heterozygous, one homozygous dominant, and one homozygous recessive is a likely outcome, but all heterozygous, or two, three or all four homozygous is also possible.

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Consider skin color to be regulated by three genes A,B and C.All recessive alleles would be 0 or white on the color scale.All dominant alleles would be 6 or black on the color scale.What color is a person with AAbbCc genotype?


A) 6 or black
B) 5 or dark
C) 3 or medium brown
D) 2 or light
E) 0 or white

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The inheritance of blood types in humans can be explained by


A) simple Mendelian genetics (one gene pair) .
B) linked genes.
C) simple dominance.
D) multiple alleles.
E) polygenic inheritance.

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Both parents are heterozygous for Tay-Sachs disease (an autosomal recessive disorder) .Three children in a row were born with Tay-Sachs disease.What is the chance that a fourth child will have Tay-Sachs disease?


A) 0%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
E) 100%

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