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Biology Science

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Set 7 Patterns Of Inheritance

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Question 1

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Why did Mendel analyze thousands of plants while conducting his research?

A) to allow him to control the environment of his pea plants
B) The likelihood of seeing a clear pattern is higher with a larger data set.
C) Mendel knew that chromosomes undergo recombination during meiosis.
D) to eliminate the probability of mutations affecting his data

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Question 2

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Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment both have their biological basis in events that take place during

A) chromosome formation.
B) mutation.
C) mitosis.
D) meiosis.

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Question 3

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Which of the following does NOT represent a phenotype?

A) a person's susceptibility to Addison's disease
B) the height of a draft horse
C) the alleles in a mouse that control hair color
D) the extent to which an individual is shy

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