Jeopardy: Genes

1. Q. Explain the difference between homozygous and heterozygous.

A. Homozygous means having the same alleles while heterozygous means having different
alleles.
2. Q. What process produces many variations in phenotype?
A. Independent Assortment
3. Q. An organisms physical characteristics, such as eye color or hair color, are known as the
organisms ________.
A. Phenotype
Male Tt
1
3

2
4

Female Tt

4. Q. Being Tall (T) is dominant to being short (t). The inheritance of these traits can be studied
using the punnett square above. What would be the genotype and phenotype of box 1?
A. homozygous dominant, freckled
5. Q. In pea plants, white flowers are dominant over purple ones. If homozygous, white peas are
crossed with a purple plant, what possible phenotype will the offspring be?
A. All white