Plants & Society
Chapter 7 & 8 Test
Name: _____________________
1. _____ This person is known for his experiments and research on the garden pea.
a. Abbott Napp
b. Carolus Linnaeus
c. Gregor Mendel
d. Pliny Elder
e. Theophrastus
2. _____ This person is known as the “Father of Botany”
a. Abbott Napp
b. Carolus Linnaeus
c. Gregor Mendel
d. Pliny Elder
e. Theophrastus
3. _____ Choose the scientific name that is written in the correct format.
a. Acer rubrum
b. acer rubrum
c. Acer rubrum
d. Acer rubrum
e. Acer Rubrum
4. _____ Genes that exist is at least two alternate forms are known as
a. Dominant
b. Heterozygous
c. Homologous
d. Homozygous
e. Recessive
5. _____ The transmission of traits from parent to offspring and the expression of those
traits.
a. Alleles
b. Genes
c. Homologous
d. Homozygous
e. Inheritance
6. _____ Mating individuals that differed in only one trait
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Dominant
Genotype
Phenotype
Monohybrid Cross
Recessive
7. _____ The actual appearance of a trait is known as
a. Dominant
b. Genotype
c. Phenotype
d. Monohybrid Cross
e. Recessive
8. _____ The genetics makeup of a trait
a. Dominant
b. Genotype
c. Phenotype
d. Monohybrid Cross
e. Recessive
9. _____ Which of the following is NOT one of the premises to Darwin’s theory of evolution
by natural selection?
a. Competition
b. Overproduction
c. Survival to Reproduce
d. Symbiosis
e. Variation
10. _____ This person’s greatest accomplishment was the adoption and popularization of
the binomial system of nomenclature.
a. Abbott Napp
b. Carolus Linnaeus
c. Gregor Mendel
d. Pliny Elder
e. Theophrastus
Short Answer
11. Plants are given common and scientific names. What are three things that these names
usually indicate?
12. How was the binomial naming system an improvement over the polynomial system?
13. Gregor Mendel studied seven pairs of characteristics of the garden pea. What are 4 of
the seven characteristics?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Solve the following genetics problem.
14. A tall plant (TT) is crossed with a short plant (tt).
a. What percentage will be tall?
b. What percentage will be short?
c. Complete the punnett square.
15. In pea plants purple flowers are dominant to white flowers. A white flower (pp) is
crossed with a purple flower (Pp).
a. What percentage will be white?
b. What percentage will be purple?
c. Complete the punnett square.