I- MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of your best answer.

Write the letter on the blank space of every number.

______1. Mendels experiments took place where?
a. At a university
b. at a monastery
c. at his home
d. in a farmers nearby field
______2. Why did Mendel choose pea plants for his experiments?
a. It has many different visible trait
c. it was easy to grow
b. It grew quickly and in large amounts
d. all of the above
______3. Whats a Punnett Square good for?
a. Deciding what time of year is best to plant vegetables
b. Predicting what the offspring will look like when mating plants and animals.
c. Looking at the size and shape of chromosomes in a cell.
d. Deciding how much water to give pea plants.
______4. An individual who has two of the same allele is said to be?
a. heteromologous
b. homozygous
c. heterozygous
d. homologous
______5. Where two alternatives for a trait are tall and short, and tall is dominant, the genotype of a heterozygous
individual would be expressed?
a. sS
b. ss
c. SS
d. Ss
______6. The appearance resulting from a given gene combination is referred to as the
a. genotype
b. phenotype
c. phototype
d. stereotype
______7. In garden peas, height is determined by a single gene with tall being dominate to short. If two
heterozygous plants are crossed, what proportion of the tall progeny will be homozygous dominant?
a. 3/4
b. 1/2
c. 1/4
d. 2/3
______8. Flammable materials, like alcohol, should never be dispensed or used near?
a. At an open door
b. an open flame
c. another student
d. a sink
______9. In a laboratory, the following should not be worn.
a. Loose clothing
b. dangling jewelry
c. sandals
d. all of the above
______10. If your clothing or your neighbor's clothing catches fire, what should you do?
a. drop to the floor and roll to extinguish the fire
c. run
b. throw water on the burning clothes
d. spray the fire with a fire extinguisher
II. TRUE FALSE. Underline the correct answer for each statement.
True False 11. All accidents and/or injuries in the science lab should be handled by the students
themselves.
True

False 12. The correct way to combine acid & water is to add acid to the water.

Tue

False 13. Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are used, students need to wear lab goggles.

True

False 14. Long hair (not tied back), dangling jewelry, and loose clothing are cool in science labs.

True

False 15. It is ok to point the open end of a test tube being heated at yourself or someone else.

True

False 16. When removing an electrical plug from a socket, pull on the electrical cord.

True

False 17. If something is spilled or broken in the lab, cover it up or move it out of the way

True

False 18. The correct procedure for smelling a chemical is to point the face of the container away
from your face (and others' faces), while gently fanning the vapors towards your nose.

True

False 19. When you complete your experiment, it is alright to do your own experiment as long as you
clean up afterwards.

True

False 20. If an acid gets on your skin, the best thing to do is tell your teacher immediately and flush the

area with lots of water.

III. IDENTIFICATION. Identify the meaning of each safety symbol below.
21.

22.

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24.

25.

23.

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IV. APPLICATION. Solve the following Mendelian genetics problems. Use the space on the right for the Punnett
square.
A. Straight hair is dominant and curly hair is
recessive.
1. Diagram a Punnett Square for 2 heterozygous
parents.
2. What is the genotypic ratio for the offspring?
3. What is the probability of producing a curlyhaired child? (In percent)
B. White-spotted beetles are dominant over solid
colored beetles. A heterozygous male is
crossed with a solid colored female.
1. Diagram a Punnett Square for this cross.
2. What is the genotypic ratio for the offspring?
3. What is the probability of producing a spotted
beetle? (In percent)

B. Circle the choices that are examples of each of those words.

11. Dominant allele

12. Recessive allele

13. Homozygous dominant

AA

Gg

KK

mm

uu

Rr

TT

14. Homozygous recessive

ee

Ff

HH

Oo

qq

Uu

ww

15. Genotypes in which dominant gene must show

AA

Dd

EE

ff

Jj

RR

Ss

16. Genotypes in which recessive gene must show

aa

Gg

Ff

KK

rr

Oo

Tt

17-18. Long hair is (S) is dominant over short hairs (s)

in guinea pigs. One guinea pig is Ss and one is ss.
Expected number of offspring:
_____Short Hair
____ Long Hair

19-20. Long hair is (S) is dominant over short hairs (s)

in guinea pigs. Both guinea pigs are heterozygous.
Expected number of offspring:
_____Short Hair
____ Long Hair