Genetics Review

1) Does the current British monarchy

have hemophilia?
A) Yes
B) To little information to determine
C) No
D) Only the males

2) A ___________ is used to describe the

physical characteristics of an
organism.
A) phenotype
C) karyotype
B) genotype
D) consanguinity

3) In the following pedigree, how many

marriages are shown?
a) One
c) Two
b) Three
d) Four

4) How many people have the trait?

a) Two
c) three
b) five
d) ten

 5) How many people are carriers for

this trait?
A) 7 B) 10
c) 17
d) 41

6) How many males are hemophiliacs?

A) 7 b) 10
c) 17
d) 41

7) What is the relationship between VI

I and 2?
a) Father and daughter
b) Uncle and niece
c) Brother and sister
d) Grandmother and
grandson

8) What is the genotype of the white

flower?
A) Ww
C) RW
B) WW
D) ww

9) What is this image called?

a) gametes
c) punnett squares
b) pedigree
d) karyotype

10) WHAT IS THE GENDER OF THIS

IMAGE?

11) What disorder is represented in

this karyotype?
a) Klinefelter
c) Turner
b) Trisomy 21
d) color blindness

12) How many autosomal

chromosomes do humans have?
A) 23
c) 46
B) 22
d) 44

13) What is the genotype of the

parental generation?
A) RR
c) WW
B) rw
d) RW

14) What type of inheritance is this?

a) co-dominance
c) sex linked
b) Incomplete
d) Mendelian

15) What is the ratio of the offspring in

this punnett square, where T = Tall?
A) 1:3
C) 4:0
B) 3:1
D) 1:2:1

16) Which term describes the

genotype Bb?
a) Homozygous
b) Purebred
c) Heterozygous
d) All of above

17)The inheritance of ABO blood

groups in humans involve ___________ .
a) sex-linked inheritance
b) Multiple alleles
c) Incomplete dominance
d) Polygenic inheritance

18) A useful device for predicting the

possible offspring of crosses between
different genotypes is the
a) Test cross
c) karyotype
b) Law of dominance
d) punnett
square

19) A trait in humans that is the result

of polygenic inheritance is ?
A) cystic fibrosis
B) skin color
C) color blindness
D) Duchenne muscular dystrophy

20)If a red shorthorn bull is mated with

a white shorthorn cow, then the
offspring will be?
a) 100% white
c) 50% red/50%
roan
b) 50% red
d) 100% roan

21) The gene for color blindness is

located only ________________ ?
a) in males
b) in females
c) on the Y chromosome
d) on the X chromosome

22) Looking at the punnett square

below, what is the phenotype of the
offspring?
a) 1:1 green to yellow
b) 4:0 green
c) 4:0 yellow
d) 3:1 yellow

23) What is the genotype of the

offspring?
a) 4:0 Aa
b) 1:1 AA to Aa
c) 1:2:1 AA to Aa to aa
d) 3:1 AA to aa

24) If a color blind female carrier

marries a non-colorblind man, what
percentage of females will be carriers?
A) 0%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 100%

25) What type of inheritance does the

picture below represent?
a) co-dominance
c) polygenic
b) Mendelian
d) incomplete
dominance

26)Down syndrome is an example

of?
A) autosomal recessive inheritance
B) sex-linked recessive inheritance
C) polygenic inheritance
D) non-disjunction trisomy 21

27) Since only males have the trait, it

can be referred to as?
a)sex-linked recessive c) sex-linked
dominant
b)Autosomal recessive d) autosomal
dominant

28) What is the genotype of II- 2?

a) X H X h
c) X H X H
b) X H Y
d) X h Y

29) Which blood type is recessive?

a) A
b) B
c) AB
d) O

30) What term is used to describe the

relationship between VI -1 and VI-2?
a) Turners syndrome
b) Sex linked inheritance
c) Polygenic inheritance
d) consanguinity

31) A cross between homozygous B

blood type man and a homozygous O
type woman produces?
a) AB
b) Ai
c) Bi
d) ii

This karyotype shows .?

a) Klinefelter syndrome c) Down
syndrome
b) Trisomy 21
d) Turner
syndrome