ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS 10TH EDITION BY WILLIAM KLUG 2026 GENETICS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS ANSWERS GRADED A+

ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS 10TH
EDITION BY WILLIAM KLUG 2026
GENETICS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ inheritance.
Answer: passing of traits from parent to offspring


◉ Gregor Mendel.
Answer: was the first person to study inheritance... considered the
"father of genetics"


◉ nucleus.
Answer: control center of all eukaryotic cells that contain the
chromosomes with their DNA


◉ chromosome.
Answer: long strands of coiled DNA found in the nucleus of a cell...
they always come in pairs


◉ gene.
Answer: a location on a chromosome that gives an organism a certain
physical trait


◉ allele.

, Answer: one of two locations on the chromosome that make up a gene
(one allele from each parent)


◉ dominant allele.
Answer: the most influential allele, represented with a capital letter


◉ recessive allele.
Answer: the less influential allele, represented with a lower case letter


◉ genotype.
Answer: genetic make-up of an organism... the combinations of alleles
in their chromosomes


◉ phenotype.
Answer: physical appearance of an organism


◉ homozygous alleles.
Answer: alleles in a genotype that are the same...
can be homozygous dominant (AA) or homozygous recessive (aa)


◉ heterozygous alleles.
Answer: two different alleles in a genotype... example: (Aa)


◉ co-dominance.