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AP Biology Unit 5B: Mendelian Genetics & Inheritance — practice questions — page 3

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Do the Mendel arithmetic

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Questions
  1. Answer
    7
    Question
    Characteristics in Mendel's 1865 paper
  2. Answer
    100
    Question
    Percent of F1 hybrids with violet flowers
  3. Answer
    75
    Question
    Percent of F2 offspring expected round-seeded
  4. Answer
    4
    Question
    Boxes in a Punnett square for one gene
Instructions
Work out each number and key it in.
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 'Mendel's Experiments and Heredity', sections 12.1-12.3_

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True or false: Mendel's peas

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Traits blended together in Mendel's offspring.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The recessive trait reappeared in the F2 generation.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A carrier can hold a recessive allele without showing it.
  4. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Small samples give reliable genetic ratios.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Peas are naturally self-pollinating plants.
  6. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Every gene in a population has only two alleles.
Instructions
Tap True or False for each statement.
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 'Mendel's Experiments and Heredity', sections 12.1-12.3_

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Complete the monohybrid result

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Missing parts
  1. Answer
    dominant
    Choices
    1. dominant
    2. recessive
    3. blended
  2. Answer
    three
    Choices
    1. two
    2. three
    3. nine
  3. Answer
    two
    Choices
    1. two
    2. three
    3. four
Complete the statement
Crossing two true-breeding parents gives an F1 that is all {0}; self-crossing that F1 gives an F2 phenotype ratio of {1} to one, and a genotype ratio of one to {2} to one.
Instructions
Tap a word for each blank to complete the result.
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 'Mendel's Experiments and Heredity', sections 12.1-12.3_

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