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If a person has type B blood, which statement describes the antibodies present in his or her blood?
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Only anti-A antibodies are present.
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Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disorder that is passed through generations and can be traced by using a pedigree. In the pedigree that is shown, which represents Irene's allele combination?
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XHXH
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The results of Thomas Hunt Morgan's last cross are shown in the Punnett square below. Which of Thomas Hunt Morgan's hypotheses was valid based on these results?
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White eyes are lethal in male Drosophila.
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Mary has type A blood. Her son Bill has type AB blood. Which blood type does Bill's dad have if he is homogenous for blood type?
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B
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Gregor Mendel used pea plants that were heterozygous for each of two traits—seed color and seed shape—to generate a dihybrid cross. The phenotypic ratio of the resulting offspring was nine with round and yellow seeds, three with round and green seeds, three with wrinkled and yellow seeds, and one with wrinkled and green seeds. From these results, what could Mendel conclude?
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Traits are passed independently of one another.
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Which Punnett square represents a cross between two parents that are heterozygous for purple flowers?
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A
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Round seeds and yellow seed color are dominant to wrinkled seeds and green seed color. What is the probability of having offspring that have wrinkled seeds and yellow seed color for the cross RRYY ´ RrYy?
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0 percent
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A pea plant exhibits a recessive trait. Which statement is most likely true about the plant?
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The plant has two identical alleles for the gene that codes for the trait.
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In peas, yellow seed color (Y) is dominant to green seed color (y). Which describes an organism that has nonidentical alleles for seed color?
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Yy and has yellow seeds
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A scientist is studying fruit fly wings. Straight wings are dominant, and curly wings are recessive. Which statement correctly describes the F1 generation if a straight-winged parent is crossed with a curly-winged parent and if both parents are true breeding?
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The offspring will have one allele for straight wings and one allele for curly wings.
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In peas, yellow seed color (Y) is dominant to green seed color (y). A homozygous green pea plant is crossed with a heterozygous yellow pea plant. What is the predicted phenotypic ratio of the offspring?
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50 percent yellow, 50 percent green
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A purebred plant that has yellow flowers is crossed with a purebred plant that has white flowers. All the offspring have yellow flowers. Which conclusion about yellow flowers is supported by these results?
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Yellow flower color is a dominant trait.
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Pedigrees are used to help geneticists understand how traits are inherited between generations. The Romanovs, a Russian royal family, had a history of hemophilia, a sex-linked disorder that is determined by a recessive allele on the X chromosome. What is the best evidence to prove that Irene was heterozygous for hemophilia?
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Alice carried the recessive allele.
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In the F2 generation of Mendel's crosses,
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one in four plants had two alleles for the recessive trait.
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Which of Mendel's generations was allowed to self-pollinate?
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F1 generation
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Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness. Studies have linked a common form of glaucoma to three genes and more than 20 genetic loci. Which best describes glaucoma?
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a polygenic trait that is influenced by the alleles of several genes
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In a dihybrid cross for round and yellow seeds (RrYy x RrYy), what is the probability of having green and wrinkled seeds?
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1:16
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Which type of scientific statement is defined as a hypothesis or group of hypotheses that can be accepted as true based on repeated experimentation with similar results?
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theory
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Which allele combination represents a male who has an X-linked recessive disorder?
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XrY
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Which was most likely an effect on society that resulted from improvements in blood handling during World War I and World War II?
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More soldiers who had lost a limb returned home.
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When plants that are heterozygous for seed shape and have round seeds are crossed, what is the probability that the offspring will have wrinkled seeds?
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25 percent
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Which of Mendel's laws or principles explains that traits are passed from parents to offspring individually instead of as pairs, groups, or sets?
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the law of independent assortment
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive disorder. What is the probability that a female offspring of the cross that is shown above would have a recessive allele for Duchenne muscular dystrophy disorder?
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100 percent
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The Punnett square predicts the ratio of genotypes in the offspring, based on the genotypes of the parents. The Punnett square below examines the chance of offspring having freckles, which is a dominant trait. Based on the Punnett square, what is the probability that the offspring will have freckles?
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75 percent
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Which combination of alleles are always involved in the inheritance of a sex-linked trait?
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alleles that are carried on X and Y chromosomes