SUMMATIVE TEST 2

S.Y.2022-2023
9-SCIENCE
Heredity: Inheritance and Variation
Non-Mendelian Inheritance
Set A
Name: ________________________________________________ Grade & Section_________________

Directions: Read and analyze each question. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your paper.

1. Which do you call the unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some
characteristics of the offspring?
a. chromosome c. locus
b. heredity d. gene
2. It is a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic
information.
a. genotype c. nitrogen base
c. chromosome d. nucleus
3. Which statement best describes the chromosomes before the cell division takes place?
a. A chromosome is double stranded before a cell divides.
b. A chromosome in its nucleus single-stranded before the cell divides.
c. A chromosome is increasing its length before the cell divides.
d. A chromosome is half its original size before the cell divides.
4. Which of the following is the basic unit of the chromosome?
a. nucleus c. nucleosome
b. nucleotide d. nuclei
5. DNA has four nitrogen bases/complementary bases. Which of the two complementary bases is CORRECTLY
paired?
I. adenine pairs with thymine IV. adenine pairs with guanine
II. cytosine pairs with guanine V. cytosine pairs with cytosine
III. adenine pairs with adenine VI. adenine pairs with
a. III and V c. I and II
b. V and VI d. III and V
6. Which of the following is NOT a component of DNA?
a. 5-carbon sugar c. nitrogenous base
b. calcium d. phosphate
7. What kind of sugar is present in DNA?
a. brown sugar c. table sugar
b. deoxyribose d. white sugar
8. A chromosome is made up of the following EXCEPT:
a. cell c. DNA
b. Histones d. genes
9. DNA is an acronym for ______.
a. Deoxynucleotide c. Deoxyribose acid
b. Deoxyribonucleic acid d. Deoxyribose
10. Gene is a factor that controls the inheritance of a character, which of the following is the exact location of genes?
a. allele c. helix
b. cells d. DNA
11. Using the concept of incomplete dominance, what is the offspring produced if a pure red-flower (RR) is crossed
with a pure white flower (WW)?

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a. 100 % red c. 100% white

b. 100% pink d. 50% pink
12. What is the probability of producing white (WW) flowers if pink (RW) flowers are crossed with another pink
(RW)flowers?
a. 0% c. 75%
b. 50% d. 25%
13. Look at the illustration below. It shows that white a white bull mates a red cow then, their offspring exhibit both
white and red spots. What non-Mendelian principle is shown?

a. Codominance
b. Incomplete dominance
c. Multiple alleles
d. Sex-linked genes

14. If a roan bull mates with a roan cow, and there are 100 total offspring, how many roans will be produced?
a. 25 % c.75%
b.50% d.100%
15. Jenny has a heterozygous blood type A (IA i) and her husband, Ben is homozygous B (IB IB), what will be the
possible blood type of their children?
a. A and AB c. O and AB
b. B and AB d. A and O
16. When Janella visited her uncle, she saw some pink gumamela flowers in the garden. Her uncle told her that the
pink gumamela was a product of a cross between a red and white gumamela. What heredity principle is shown in this
situation?
a. Dominance c. Polygenic Inheritance
b. Incomplete Dominance d. Segregation
17. Is it TRUE that a father who is colorblind and a mother with normal vision (I) will always have a son with normal
vision (II) but will never have colorblind daughter?
a. I but not II c. II but not I
b. Both I and II d. Neither I nor II
18. If a woman with a normal vision (XX) has children with a man who is color blind (X c Y), what are the chances that
their children will be color blind? Will any children be carriers of the traits?
a. No children will be color blind but there are two possible female children who will be the carrier of the
traits.
b. 100 % all their children will be color blind.
c. 100 % of all their children will be the carrier of traits.
d. All children will have a normal vision.
19. A man with heterozygous B (IB i) blood type is married to a woman with heterozygous A (IA i) blood type. What is
the probability of the couple to produce a child with AB blood Type?
a. 100% c.50%
b. 25% d. 75%
20. A child has 0 blood type. Which of the following could be parents?
a. IA IB x ii c. IA IA x IB i
A B B
b. I i x I I d. IB i x IB i

21. An extra finger in humans is rare but is due to a dominant gene. When one parent is normal, and the other parent
has an extra finger but is heterozygous for the trait, what is the probability that the first child will be normal?
a. Zero percent c. Fifty percent
b. Twenty-five percent d. Seventy-five percent

22. Color blindness is an example of an X-linked trait. Who are the possible carriers of the color blindness trait?
a. Men who are homozygous for the trait
b. Men who are heterozygous for the trait
c. Women who are homozygous for the trait
d. Women who are heterozygous for the trait
23. What type of inheritance is expressed by genes located either on X or Y sex chromosomes?

a. Codominance c. Incomplete Dominance

b. Multiple Alleles d. Sex-linked Inheritance

24. The human sex chromosome for male is ____.

a. XX c. XZ
b. XY d. YY

25. Pattern baldness is an example of ____________.

a. Sex-limited trait
b. Sex-influenced trait
c. Sex-linked trait
d. Codominance