BOOKLET BIOL 101, A1

TEST AP101-1, SET B

Genetics & Inheritance

Questions:

13 Multiple-Choice Questions

Test Duration:

15 minutes

Reading Time:

5 minutes

INSTRUCTION:
Only Bilingual Dictionaries allowed, NO NOTES. This test consists of one part, thirteen (13) multiple choice
questions (numbers 1 to 13) to be answered on the computer answer sheet (13 marks). Write your name and
student number in the spaces provided on the computer answer sheet. Carefully fill in the shapes on the
computer-marked answer sheet under your name and ID number with a 2B pencil. You must only use a 2B
pencil on the computer answer sheet. Please read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully and follow
them precisely. Select the best answer to questions. If you are unsure of an answer, eliminate the alternatives
that you know to be incorrect and select answer from the remaining alternatives. To indicate your selection,
use a 2B pencil to blacken the corresponding oval on the computer answer sheet, AP101-1. No marks are
deducted for wrong answers. So students are advised to move on quickly without wasting too much time on
one question. - Advanced questions; require further reading or online research.

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Genetics & Inheritance

1. Amniocentesis ():
A. is performed around the eighth week of pregnancy
B. is a form of gene therapy
C. takes cells from the trophoblast of the fetus
D. measures chemicals and looks at chromosomes in the fetus
2. If a male inherits a sex-linked gene for hemophilia,
A. it will be expressed only if 2 copies are present
B. it will not be expressed
C. it could be passed on to his son
D. it will always be expressed
3. Which of the following is not true of genetics?
A. a person's genetic makeup is referred to as his or her genotype
B. the larger the number of offspring, the greater the likelihood that the ratios predicted by a Punnett
square will conform to the predicted values
C. the X and Y sex chromosomes are homologous
D. many genetic disorders, such as albinism, cystic fibrosis, and Tay-Sachs disease, are inherited as
simple recessive traits
4. The SRY gene can be found ():
A. only on the X chromosome
B. only on an autosome
C. on any of the chromosomes
D. only on the Y chromosome
5. What type of inheritance pattern is skin color?
A. dominant-recessive
B. polygenic
C. multiple allele
D. sex-linked
6. Sunlight is an environmental factor that may influence the expression of some genes.
A. this statement is false
B. this would only happen in males
C. this would only in females
D. this statement is true
7. Height and intelligence have the ________ pattern of inheritance.
A. dominant-recessive
B. polygenic
C. multiple allele
D. sex-linked

Genetics & Inheritance

8. Which of the following correctly matches each of the types of inheritance with the phenotype ()?
A. polygenic; height
B. sex-linked; Tay-Sachs disease
C. dominant-recessive; hemophilia
D. both B and C
9. Which of the following genetic diseases are not inherited as simple autosomal recessive traits ()?
A. cystic fibrosis
B. albinism
C. hemophilia
D. Tay-Sachs
10. Two identical alleles for a gene are considered:
A. heterozygous
B. polygenic
C. homozygous
D. co-dominant
11. Which of the following is not true of genetics?
A. a gene is a segment of a DNA molecule
B. each chromosome contains one or more molecules of DNA
C. DNA is tightly packaged into nucleosomes which are wrapped around histone
D. transcription is important because DNA is too large to leave the nucleus
12. The following alleles give the following characteristics:
Allele:
Black hair (B) red hair (b)
Brown eyes (Br) blue eyes (br)
Unaffected sickle cell allele (Si) Affected sickle cell allele (si),
Your genes are: B/b, br/br, Si/si
Which of the following matches the physical appearance of the above combination?
A.
B.
C.
D.

black Hair, brown eyes, sickle cell carrier

red hair, brown eyes, sickle cell affected
black hair, blue eyes, sickle cell carrier
red hair, blue eyes, sickle cell affected

13. A normally pigmented female (Pp) and albino man (pp) are planning on having children. What is the %
chance of them having another albino child?
A. 50%
B. 25%
C. 0%
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D. 100%

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