Mendel's Laws of Inheritance practice questions

Question 1

What type of traits CAN’T be passed from parents to offspring through reproduction?

Answer 1

acquired and learned

ie. length of giraffe neck are actually due to genetic mutations

Question 2

An inherited trait is one passed from parent to offspring through the process of what?

Answer 2

reproduction
ie. bird breeder produced pigeon populations with thicker and darker plummage over several generations –> this is specifically artificial selection.

Question 3

Two brown mice mate and produce offspring 3x. They end up producing 19 brown and 5 white offspring. What is the most likely genotype of the parent mice?

Answer 3

both parents are heterozygotes b/c 19:5 ratio is v close to 3:1 mendelian ratio.

Question 4

What type of mutations can be passed from parent to offspring?

Answer 4

germ line and NOT somatic