EVALUATION

The Evaluation exercise closing this chapter has 37 items. The first 22 are single-best-answer multiple-choice questions spanning extra-nuclear inheritance, gamete combinatorics in di- and trihybrid genotypes, polygenic inheritance, test and back crosses, gene linkage, dominance/codominance, epistasis, and the history of Mendel's own experiments. The remaining 15 are short-answer/descriptive questions asking students to name, define, differentiate and explain the chapter's core terms and mechanisms - Mendel's seven traits, true-breeding lines, the rediscovery of Mendelism, back cross, the definition of genetics, multiple alleles, the law of dominance, incomplete dominance versus codominance, cytoplasmic inheritance, dominant epistasis, polygenic inheritance, continuous versus discontinuous var …