SBI3U Its All in the Genes, eh?

Name:_______________
Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Mark all
answers on the scantron card provided.
____ 1. Which of the following terms can be used to describe a carrier?
a. Homozygous b. True breed c. Homozygous d. Heterozygous e. Inbreed
recessive dominant

____ 2. Identify the function of the organelle pictured.

a. Package proteins into vesicles
b. Transport proteins out of the cell
c. Produce energy
d. Transport molecules within the cell
e. Break down large molecules and foreign substances.
____ 3. If the parents of F are SS and ss, then the F will be
a. 1/4 SS, 1/2 Ss, and 1/4 ss. c. 1/2 Ss and 1/2 SS.
b. all SS. d. 1/2 ss and 1/2 Ss.
____ 4. Hornless is dominant to horned in cattle. A farmer has a herd of hornless cattle. Occasionally, a horned calf
appears in his herd. The reason for this is that
a. a mutation occurred. c. hornless is a sex-linked characteristic.
b. some of the cattle are heterozygous. d. all the cattle are homozygous hornless.
____ 5. Two parents were known to be right-handed. Assuming that right-handed (R) is dominant to left-handed (r),
what would be the genotypes of the parents if their son is left-handed?
a. rrrr b. rrRr c. RR rr d. RrRr
____ 6. To determine if a lizard with the dominant phenotype of orange spots is heterozygous or homozygous, the
organism is mated to an individual that is
a. heterozygous for the trait in question.
b. homozygous recessive for the trait in question.
c. homozygous dominant for the trait in question.
d. of the same genotype as the organism being tested.
____ 7. IBIO represents the blood group phenotype
a. A. b. B. c. O. d. AB.
____ 8. Which parent genotypes could possibly have all four blood groups expressed in the offspring?
a. I I and I I b. I I and I I c. I I and I I d. I I and I I
____ 9. In pea plants, the allele for tall plants is dominant to the allele for short plants, and the allele for yellow pea
colour is dominant to the allele for green pea colour. What is the genotype of a short pea plant produced from
a cross between a true-breeding yellow pea plant and a true-breeding green pea plant?
a. TTYY b. TtYy c. ttYY d. ttYy e. ttyy
____ 10. Use the "A-B-O" method of blood-typing in humans to answer the question. A man with blood type O married
a woman with blood type AB. What are the possible blood types of their children?
a. type A and type B only c. type O only
b. type A and type AB only d. type A, type B, and type AB
____ 11. An X-linked dominant allele is inherited from a heterozygous female by
a. all of her sons.
b. half of her sons.
c. all of her daughters.
d. none of her daughters.
e. all of her children
____ 12. Mendel also performed crosses between plants called the four-o'clock flower. He crossed plants with red
flowers and plants with white flowers. All offspring were pink. If the F plants were crossed with the red-
flowered parent, which phenotype would appear in the F offspring?
a. red c. white and pink
b. red and pink d. red, white, and pink
____ 13. The seed colour of a particular species of plant is inherited through incomplete dominance. If a true-breeding
plant with blue seeds is crossed with a true-breeding plant with yellow seeds, what is the expected seed colour
of the offspring?
a. yellow c. blue e. You cannot predict seed colour
b. green d. yellow and blue spots from the information given
____ 14. Red-flowered plants crossed with white-flowered plants produce pink-flowered offspring. The probability of
producing a white-flowered plant from two pink-flowered plants is
a. 0. b. 1/4. c. 1/2. d. 3/4.
____ 15. Which of the following statements about trisomy is false?
a. Many trisomies are found in miscarried fetuses.
b. The incidenceof trisomy increases with maternal age.
c. Trisomy 21 is also known as Down Syndrome.
d. Trisomy can be identified using karyotype.
e. Trisomy is one result of non-disjunction during mitosis
____ 16. Molecules of DNA are composed of long chains of
a. sugar c. amino acids e. histones
b. nucleotides d. nitrogen
____ 17. In humans, spermatogenesis and oogenesis are similar in that they both involve meiosis. How do they differ?
a. Spermatogenesis produces 4 functioning cells and oogenesis produces only 1 functioning
cell.
b. Spermatogenesis produces cells with less cytoplasm
c. Oogenesis produces cells that can not move on their own.
d. All of the above.
____ 18. The allele for freckles is dominant to the alleles for no freckles. A freckled man and an unfreckled woman
have 2 children, a boy with freckles and a girl without freckles. What are the genotypes of all four?
a. Mom: ff, Dad: FF, boy: FF, girl: ff
b. Mom: ff, Dad: Ff, boy: Ff, girl: ff
c. Mom: FF, Dad: ff, boy: ff, girl: FF
d. Mom: ff, Dad: FF or Ff, boy: Ff, girl: ff
e. Mom: FF or Ff, Dad: ff, boy: ff, girl: Ff
____ 19. What evidence would be required to prove that a characteristic in humans was due to a gene on the Y
chromosome that had no corresponding allele on the X chromosome?
a. male offspring always affected
b. 3/4 male and 1/4 female offspring affected
c. 1/2 male and 1/2 female offspring affected
d. 1/4 male offspring affected on the F2 generation
____ 20. During Meiosis I, sister chromatids are separated.
a. True b. False
____ 21. Which of the following does NOT describe interphase?
a. Growth and DNA synthesis occur
b. DNA is in the form of chromatin
c. Chromosomes appear
d. It is the longest part of the cell cycle
e. Organelles replicate
____ 22. The basic building block of DNA contains
a. A sugar, a protein and adenine
b. A sugar and an amino acid
c. A sugar, a phosphate and thymine
d. Complimentary base pairs
e. A sugar, a phosphate and a nitrogen-containing base
____ 23. If analysis of the double-stranded DNA in an organism reveals that 30% of the nitrogenous bases is adenine,
which statement is true?
a. 15% must be thymine c. The combined % of adenine and thymine must be 60%
b. 30% must be guanine d. The combined % of guanine and cytosine must be 60%
____ 24. Which of the following statements about homologous chromosomes is true
a. Homologous chromosomes are different lengths
b. Homologous chromosomes have different centromere positions
c. Homologous chromosomes pair up during meiosis I
d. Homologous chromosomes have the same alleles at the same location on the chromosome
e. Homologous chromosomes do not have common genes for traits
____ 25. How many chromosomes does a cell have during metaphase I of meiosis if it has 12 chromosomes at the
beginning of interphase?
a. 3 b. 6 c. 12 d. 24 e. 48
*Refer to the picture of the DNA Strand below for questions #26-30
____ 26. Which of the labels below is pointing to the sugar deoxyribose
a. a) b. b) c. c) d. a) and b) e. none of the above
____ 27. Which of the labels below is pointing to complimentary nitrogenous bases
a. a) b. b) c. c) d. a) and b) e. none of the above
____ 28. Which of the labels is pointing to the phosphate group?
a. a) b. b) c. c)
d. a) and b) e. none of the above
____ 29. What would be the DNA sequence on the right-hand strand
of DNA from top to bottom?
a. AGGA b. CAGC c. CTGC
d. TCGT e. UCGU
____ 30. Which of the molecules have hydrogen bonds between them?
a. a) b. b) c. c)
d. a) and b) e. none of the above
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1. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis (where and when it occurs, the products, phases, function, etc).
You may want to use a T-chart to organize your points or a diagram to help in your explanation.
 2. Create and answer a question that involves a genetic cross with codominant alleles (you decide the traits
and the parents) to show your understanding of this concept and your understanding of the use of Punnett
squares.

3. If a normal man marries a normal woman whose father was colourblind, what are the chances that their
sons and daughters will be colourblind? Colourblindness is a sex-linked trait that affects males more often than
females.
With the aid of a Punnett square, indicate the genotypes of all the parents, and of the offspring, including their
chances of being colourblind in the F generation.

4. In the Protista Kingdom, slime molds pass on the trait of producing liquid slime vs. sticky slime in a simple
dominant/recessive inheritance pattern where liquid slime is dominant. Slime colour is also simple inheritance
where blue is dominant to yellow.
~Ew, yuck.~
You find yellow, sticky slime producing mold and blue, liquid slime producing mold on your old ham sandwich
in your locker. What are the chances that, if their spores combined, they would produce a new blue, sticky slime
producing mold?
5. You are studying a disease that adversely affects patients because there is not enough of a particular protein
circulating in the blood of these patients. You hypothesize that something is going wrong at the cellular level.
You do a test to determine if the protein is being produced in the cells and it is! You find normal levels of the
protein inside the cells where it is produced
Use your understanding of cell organelles and cell functioning (even genetics) to a) explain what is functioning
normally, b) what you think may be causing the disorder (this may include more than one thing, be sure to
explain your hypothesis fully) and c) propose a potential solution.