HSCI 390 - Bio Statistics » Spring 2020 » Inheritance and Genetic Testing Quiz

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Question #1
Which of the following statements is NOT true? Select one:
A.   A heterozygous organism may havehas the same number of alleles for a given trait as a homozygous organism
B.   Two organisms with the same genotypes are homozygous
C.   A heterozygous organism may have the same phenotype as a homozygous organism
D.   Two organisms with the same phenotype may h ave different genotypes
E.   All of the above are true
Question #2
In a pea plants, the allele for purple flower color is dominant to the allele for white flower color. If you were to perform a test-cross to determine the genotype of a purple-flowered plant, you would expect the percentage of purple-flowered progeny to be ___ if the plant is homozygous and ___ if the plant is heterozygous. Select one:
A.   75%;75%
B.   50%;25%
C.   100%;50%
D.   100%;25%
E.   50%;100%
Question #3
Which of the following expresses Mendel's law of segragation?
A.   Genes do not influence each other with regard to sorting of alleles into gametes.
B.   When gametes form, the genes originally from one parent all end uo in different gametes from the genes originally from the other parent
C.   All dominant alleles of different genes divide into different cells from the recessive alleles.
D.   Gametes with recessive alleles will fuse only with each other
E.   Two alleles of a gene separate during meiosis and end up in different gametes
Question #4
A chestnut-colored (red-colored) horse is mated with a cremello (cream-colored) horse. Over a 10-year period, all of their offspring are palominos (gold-colored). This pattern of inheretance is best explained by
A.   incomplete dominance
B.   codominance
C.   multiple gene effects
D.   complete dominance
E.   epistasis
Question #5
If a female who carries the X-linked recessive gene for hemophilia mates with a male who does not have hemophilia, what is the chance that their daughter will be a carrier of the gene?
A.   75%
B.   50%
C.   0%
D.   100%
E.   25%
Question #6
Jay has type O blood, and his brother Alon has type AB blood. What are the genotypes of these boy's parents?
A.   lAlA and lBi
B.   lAi and lBi
C.   lAi and lBlB
D.   ii and lBi
E.   Not enough information provided to answer the question
F.   ii and ii
Question #7
A young woman had a baby and wished to collect child support from the father. Her blood type is A and the baby's blood type is O. There are two possible fathers: Jim (who is type o) and Michael (who is type B). Which man could be the father?
A.   neither
B.   Michael
C.   either
D.   Jim
E.   Not enough information provided to answer the question
Question #8
The genotype of a female carrier of the X-linked recessive gene for Duchene muscular dystrophy is represented by:
A.   XdY
B.   Has Duchene muscular dystrophy
C.   Normal muscle function
D.   XDY
E.   XDXD
F.   XDXd

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