Q1-3: These questions are about traits - like the colour of your eyes - which can be passed from parent to offspring. |
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1. Which of these is not a trait that can be passed genetically from parent to offspring ?
- A. height as an adult
- B. hair colour
- C. foot size
- D. language
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2. Which of these sentences is correct?
- A. The word 'Biome' means the passing of traits from parent to offspring
- B. The word 'Chromosome' means the passing of traits from parent to offspring
- C. The word 'Gene' means the passing of traits from parent to offspring
- D. The word 'Heredity' means the passing of traits from parent to offspring
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3. Where do traits like eye color and hair colour come from?
- A. from the mother only
- B. from the father only
- C. from mother and father
- D. from environmental factors when we are born
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Q4-7: Eva is interested in genetics in her class, and does a quick survey of 10 other students.
She finds that 4 of them have blue (or blue/green) eyes, and the other 6 have brown eyes. 5 of them are boys, and 5 are girls. |
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4. What percentage of the 10 students had brown eyes? |
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5. A trait like gender (male or female) that can only take a few values is called a ..
- A. delimited variable
- B. limited variable
- C. discontinuous variable
- D. continuous variable
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| 6. Eva is completing a report. She is trying to decide which chart to draw to show eye colour. She is choosing from bar charts, pie charts or line graphs. |
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Which of thses would be suitable to show her results for eye colour?
- A. bar chart only
- B. line graph only
- C. pie chart or bar chart
- D. pie chart or line graph
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7. Eva wants to do a survey in her class and look at a continuous variable next. Which of these is NOT a continuous variable?
- A. height
- B. weight
- C. left or right handed
- D. hand span
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| Q8-10: These questions are about the structures inside cells that pass on genetic information. |
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8. The genetic information passed from parent to offspring has been found to be contained in the nucleus of cells, in long filament structures, as shown in this diagram. |
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These structures labelled X are called..
- A. cell membranes
- B. chloroplasts
- C. cytoplasm
- D. chromosomes
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9. Which of these sentences best describes 'DNA'?
- A. a small section of the nucleus of a cell where respiration takes place
- B. a large 'spiral' (helix) molecule that contains genetic information
- C. a molecule that controls substances moving in or out of the nucleus
- D. many small molecules containing genetic information
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10. A small section of DNA that can determine a trait is called a ..
- A. gene
- B. chloroplast
- C. franklin
- D. function
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