Genetics Trivia
From pea plants to CRISPR cuts, show off your gene pool’s humor and prove you’re a true DNA dynamo!
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
What is the classic 2x2 grid used in high school biology to predict offspring traits from two parents in a monohybrid cross?
Punnett square
Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project read Which molecule’s code to map roughly three billion base pairs—the blueprint of our inherited traits?
DNA
Which enzyme in CRISPR gene editing acts as the DNA-cutting “molecular scissors” guided by RNA?
Cas9
In DNA base pairing used in tests like PCR and sequencing, adenine pairs with which base?
Thymine
Which 19th-century Augustinian friar conducted the landmark pea plant experiments that revealed dominant and recessive inheritance?
Gregor Mendel