Mod 8

Question 1

Continuous variation

Answer 1

is a range of small differences that we may see among individuals.

Question 2

Discontinuous variation

Answer 2

is the variation seen among individuals when each individual shows very few, perhaps even just one or two easily distinguishable traits.

Question 3

Dominant traits

Answer 3

are those that are inherited unchanged in a hybridization

Question 4

Recessive traits

Answer 4

become latent, or disappear in the offspring of a hybridization.

Question 5

Homozygous means that

Answer 5

both alleles of a pair are the same (“PP” or “pp”).

Question 6

Homozygous dominant (PP)

Heterozygous (Pp)

Homozygous recessive
(pp).