Review Self_Quiz -- GENETICS: Below are some multiple choice self-quiz review questions to reinforce chapter terms and important concepts. Some of these questions will appear on the exams. |
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1. True or false: Huntingtons Disease is a Simple Autosomal Dominant Disorder
a. true |
2. True or false: Diploid eukaryotic organisms have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.
a. true |
3. An egg produced by the human female contains
a. two Y chromosomes |
4. Down syndrome is the result of
a. independent assortment |
5. True or false: Downs Syndrome is a Complex Chromosomal Disorder
a. true |
5. Number of chromosomes in human sex cells?
a. 1 |
6. Number of X chromosomes in a human female?
a. 1 |
7. The environmentally and genetically determined observable physical appearance of an organism.
a. Allele |
8. An example of a heterozygous condition is
a. aa |
9. The probability of parents w. genotypes Ss x Ss having an offspring w. the genotype ss is
a. zero |
10. Both alleles for the trait are identical.
a. Homozygous trait |
12. An allele that expresses itself and masks the effects of the other allele for the trait (this allele masks the homologous allele).
a. Homozygous trait |
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