Vocabulary Test
1. _____ Learning how to speak French would be a (an) (a) inherited trait (b) recessive trait (c) learned trait (d) dominant trait
2. _____ The units that make up a chromosome are (a) genes
(b) traits (c) cells (d) all of the above
3. _____ An expressed trait such as tallness in pea plants is known as a
(a) learned trait (b) recessive trait (c) dominant trait
(d) genetic trait
4. _____ Scientists learned that they could split a bacterium apart in order to form more bacteria that provide insulin. This process is known as (a) gene engineering (b) grafting (c) fission (d) gene splicing
5. _____ If your parents passed on some of their characteristics, these are known as (a) environmental influence (b) learned traits
(c) genetic engineering (d) inherited traits
6. _____ When neither trait is weaker or stronger than the other, we have (a) incomplete dominance (b) a power struggle (c) dominant/recessive fusion (d) gene splicing
7. _____ Mendel discovered that shortness in plants is (a) a recessive trait (b) genetic engineering (c) a dominant trait (d) a learned trait
8. _____ Today, genes can be altered and even transferred from one organism to another through a process known as a) genetic engineering (b) genealogy (c) gene splicing d) genetic designing