Practice - HEREDITY
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Practice Questions
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What is heredity?
💡 Hint: Think about where traits come from.
What trait is expressed when an individual has one dominant and one recessive allele?
💡 Hint: Remember the dominance principle.
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Interactive Quizzes
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Which trait in pea plants did Mendel find to be dominant?
💡 Hint: Think about Mendel's observations of plant heights.
True or False: Recessive traits are visible when only one copy is present.
💡 Hint: Consider how dominance works.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a species where green eyes are dominant to brown. If a homozygous green-eyed person mates with a heterozygous brown-eyed individual, what proportion of their offspring will have green eyes?
💡 Hint: Recall how dominant traits express themselves.
A couple has four children. If they know two have free earlobes and two have attached, what can you infer about the parents' genotypes?
💡 Hint: Think about the combinations of alleles that could lead to such a distribution.
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