How it works
These genetics trivia questions come in four rounds: Gregor Mendel and his peas; heredity, with genes, alleles and Mendel's laws; DNA and RNA, the molecules; and the experiments and discoveries behind them.
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Heredity first, then DNA trivia questions and answers
Gregor Mendel and his peas covers the friar, the garden in Brno and the three-to-one ratio. Heredity asks the vocabulary: genes, genotype, epistasis, genome. DNA and RNA goes from nucleotides to the nucleosome. Experiments and discoveries runs from the sugar found in 1929 to the chain reaction of 1983.
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Tap a choice to check it; the reason and the article it was read in appear with the answer. After the first ten questions the card offers Print question sheet, and More options there holds Topic, for one round, and Print answer key.
Questions and answers
What are some easy genetics trivia questions?
Which plant did Mendel mostly use? What are offspring genetically identical to their parents called? What are errors in copying DNA called? The answers are the pea, clones and mutations.
Are these printable genetics trivia questions and answers multiple choice?
Yes. Every question has four choices, and the question sheet prints them with letters. The answer key prints separately, with the reason for each answer.
Who is the father of genetics?
Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar in Brno, is known as the father of modern genetics. Between 1856 and 1863 he cultivated and tested some 28,000 plants, most of them peas.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked under it: Genetics, DNA or Gregor Mendel. Where those articles give different figures, as for the length of the largest chromosome, the figure is not asked. Nothing here is medical advice.