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The Cell and Inheritance
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1What is the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells?
- Aheredity
- Bmeiosis
- Cmitosis
- Dprobability
2For codominant traits, heterozygous organisms have a phenotype that shows
- Aboth alleles.
- Bonly the recessive alleles.
- Cneither the dominant nor the recessive allele.
- Donly the dominant allele.
3During meiosis, sex cells form when chromosome pairs are
- Adoubled.
- Bcopied.
- Cseparated.
- Dcombined.
4An organism's phenotype is its
- Aphysical appearance.
- Bgenetic makeup.
- Callele combination.
- Dprobability of occuring.
5According to the chromosome theory of inheritance, [blank_start]genes[blank_end] are carried from parents to offspring on chromosomes.
- Agenes
6Each time a coin is tossed, there is a 75% chance that the coin will land heads up.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Chromosomes are made up of [blank_start]genes[blank_end] joined together like beads on a string.
- Agenes
- Bproteins
- Cpurebreds
- Dhybrids
8[blank_start]Probability[blank_end] is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will happen.
- AProbability
9Walter Sutton discovered that the sex cells of grasshoppers have [blank_start]half[blank_end] the number of chromosomes found in the body cells.
- Ahalf
- Btwice
- Cone-fourth
- Dthe same
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