Review

Question 1

Continuous characteristics

Answer 1

Various degrees of a characteristic

Color, weight, etc

Question 2

Discontinuous Characteristics

Answer 2

One or the other

Tall or short, etc

Question 3

Continuous Characteristics are inherited in a way that ____ follow Mendells principles

Answer 3

Do

Question 4

How many DNA molecules are there in each chromosome during the G2 phase?

Answer 4

2

Question 5

Pleiotropy

Answer 5

One gene; many traits

Question 6

Polygenic

Answer 6

One trait; many genes

Question 7

From monohybrid crosses, Mendel proposed

Answer 7

The principle of segregation

Question 8

Conditional probability

Answer 8

Pedigree

Want to know if individual is a carrier

Question 9

Dominant alleles are

Answer 9

SOMETIMES wild type alleles

Question 10

Aa can be written as

Answer 10

A/a

Question 11

Pseudoautosomal Region

Answer 11

Small regions of X and Y chromosomes that are homologous

Question 12

Segregation

Answer 12

Separation of pairs of alleles during gamete formation

Question 13

Genes on the same chromosome _____ assort independently

Answer 13

Usually

Question 14

Xist gene

Answer 14

Is active only on the largely inactive X chromosome

Question 15

Incomplete penetrance

Answer 15

Is seen whenever a gene has two alleles

Question 16

Incomplete penetrance

Answer 16

The situation in which the phenotype associated with a genotype may or may not be expressed

Question 17

Sex Linked Trait

Answer 17

Only one that deals with chromosomes

Question 18

Sex Influenced Trait

Answer 18

Beards in goats

Question 19

Sex Limited trait

Answer 19

Only in one sex

Question 20

The terms Continuous Characteristics and _____ are often used interchangeably

Answer 20

Quantitative Characteristics