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Biology quiz for grade 9: Heredity and genetics

This quiz helps revise “Heredity and genetics” in Biology for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Heredity vocabulary, DNA & chromosomes, Classic inheritance, Sex cells & variation, Laws & predictions. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 14–15
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Heredity and genetics

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Heredity vocabulary

  1. 100

    What is an offspring from a cross between parental forms that differ in a characteristic called?

  2. 200

    What term means an organism's observable traits?

  3. 300

    What term means the…

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  4. 400

    What is one of…

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  5. 500

    What term means the…

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DNA & chromosomes

  1. 100

    What shape do DNA's two strands form when they twist around each other?

  2. 200

    Which DNA base pairs with adenine?

  3. 300

    What DNA building block…

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  4. 400

    How many chromosomes are…

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  5. 500

    What is the ordered…

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Classic inheritance

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The portrait shows who, the person who established basic inheritance patterns by crossing pea plants in a monastery garden?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What do we call a version whose trait is expressed when only one copy is present in the pair?

  3. 300

    What do we call…

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  4. 400

    What do we call…

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  5. 500

    What do we call…

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Sex cells & variation

  1. 100

    What type of cell division halves chromosome number while forming sex cells?

  2. 200

    What is a change in an organism's DNA sequence called?

  3. 300

    What term describes a…

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  4. 400

    Which radiation in…

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  5. 500

    What process, pictured here…

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Laws & predictions

  1. 100

    What is the grid used to predict possible inherited combinations in offspring called?

  2. 200

    What law says two inherited versions separate into different sex cells?

  3. 300

    What cross uses an…

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  4. 400

    What principle says variants…

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  5. 500

    In fruit flies like…

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