Transcript 1. What is the advantage of meiosis in terms of survival

1. WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF
MEIOSIS IN TERMS OF SURVIVAL OF
A SPECIES?
Variation
2. WHAT IS ANOTHER TERM FOR THE
“DOUBLE HELIX” SHAPE OF DNA THAT
WAS DESCRIBED BY WATSON & CRICK?
Twisted Ladder
3. IF FLOWER COLOR WERE AN
INCOMPLETE DOMINANT TRAIT, WHAT
RESULTS WHEN A RED FLOWERED PLANT IS
MATED WITH A WHITE FLOWERED PLANT?
Pink
4. NAME THE GENETIC DISEASE
CAUSED BY TRISOMY 21?
Down’s Syndrome
5. HOW OLD DO SCIENTISTS THINK
THE EARTH IS IN BILLIONS OF YEARS?
4.6 BYA
6. WHO WROTE ON THE ORIGIN OF
SPECIES?
Darwin
7. WHAT ARE THE THREE MAIN
GROUPS OF PRIMATES?
Prosimians
Monkeys
Hominoids
8. WHAT IS THE TERM FOR THE
DIFFERENT FORMS A GENE CAN TAKE?
Allele
9. WHAT ARE THE THREE
COMPONENTS OF DNA NUCLEOTIDES?
Sugar
Phosphate
Nitrogen Base
10. WHAT IS THE NAME OF A CHART
USED TO SHOW THE GENETIC HISTORY
OF AN ANIMAL OR HUMAN CALLED?
Pedigree
11. ANY EVIDENCE OF LIFE FROM THE
GEOLOGIC PAST WHICH IS OLDER
THAN 10,000 YEARS AND IS
PRESERVED IS KNOWN AS?
Fossil
12. WHAT IS THE IDEA WHICH SAID
THAT NON-LIVING MATERIAL UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS COULD
PRODUCE LIVING ORGANISMS?
Spontaneous Generation
13. WHAT IS SPECIATION? (HINT:
GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION AND
REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION ARE KEY
EVENTS IN THIS PROCESS)
Where organisms that used to
interbreed can no longer due to
GI or RI, forming 2 new species
14. NAME 2 BODY STRUCTURES WHICH
CHANGED TO ENABLE EARLY
HUMANS TO WALK UPRIGHT?
Pelvis
Foramen Magnum
15. WHAT IS THE TERM WHAT MEANS
THAT A CELL HAS ONLY ONE SET OF
CHROMOSOMES?
Haploid
16. WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR A
SUDDEN CHANGE IN GENETIC
STRUCTURE?
Mutation
17. WHAT IS A TRAIT CONTROLLED BY
A GENE ON THE X CHROMOSOME
CALLED?
Sex Linked
18. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE
PROJECT THAT MAPPED ALL THE
GENES IN THE HUMAN BODY?
Human Genome Project
19. NAME ONE TECHNIQUE TO
DETERMINE THE AGE OF A FOSSIL.
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
20. WHAT IS MEANT BY “SURVIVAL OF
THE FITTEST?”
The “Best Adapted” organism
survives
21. HOW DID HUMANS PROBABLY GET
TO NORTH AMERICA?
Bering Straight
22. WHAT IS THE BOX-LIKE CHART
USED IN GENETICS TO PREDICT
RESULTS CALLED?
Punnett Square
23. HOW IS TRANSCRIPTION
DIFFERENT FROM TRANSLATION?
Transcription: Nucleus; DNA ->
mRNA
Translation: Ribosome; mRNA > tRNA
24. SKIN COLOR AND EYE COLOR ARE
TRAITS THAT ARE AFFECTED BY WHAT
KIND OF INHERITANCE?
Polygenic
25. HOW DID THE EARLIEST CELLS
PROBABLY GET ENERGY?
chemosynthesis
26. NAME A MECHANISM FOR
GENETIC CHANGE IN A POPULATION.
Genetic drift
Migration (Gene flow)
mutation
27. NAME 2 MAJOR ADVANCES IN
PRIMATE EVOLUTION OVER THE LAST
65 MILLION YEARS.
Bipedalism
Opposable Thumb
28. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF TWO
ANIMALS THAT SHOW CONVERGENT
EVOLUTION.
Sharks & Dolphins
Hummingbird & Moth
Birds & Bats
29. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE
HETEROZYGOUS?
1 Dominant allele & 1 Recessive
Allele
30. NAME THE MOLECULE THAT
CARRIES THE GENETIC MESSAGE FROM
THE NUCLEUS TO THE RIBOSOMES.
mRNA
31. WHAT TYPE OF INHERITANCE
PATTERN IS RED-GREEN
COLORBLINDNESS?
Sex-Linked
32. HOW WOULD A PERSON FIND OUT
WHETHER THEIR PET MOUSE IS
HETEROZYGOUS OR HOMOZYGOUS
DOMINANT FOR A TRAIT?
Test Cross or Back Cross
(mate a recessive one with one
you want to identify)
33. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE
SUPERCONTINENT THAT EXISTED
ABOUT 245 MILLION YEARS AGO?
Pangea
34. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF
ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES.
Wings (birds & insects)
35. WHAT IS THE NICKNAME FOR THE
MOST FAMOUS AUSTRALOPITHECUS
FOSSIL EVER FOUND?
Lucy
36. MEIOSIS RESULTS IN A TYPE OF CELL
WHICH IS ALL THE FOLLOWING
EXCEPT:
A) HAPLOID
B) GAMETES
C) 2N
D) SEX CELLS
c) 2n
37. THE MAJOR ADVANTAGE OF
REPRODUCING SEXUALLY IS THAT IN
THE PRODUCTION OF GAMETES:
A) MORE VARIETY IS PRODUCED
B) LESS VARIETY IS PRODUCED
C) ALL CELLS ARE IDENTICAL
D) NO MUTATIONS OCCUR
a) more variety is produced
38. IF A CHILD IS AFFECTED WITH A
HEREDITARY DISEASE BUT NEITHER
PARENT HAD THE CONDITION, THE
CONDITION WOULD MOST LIKELY BE:
Recessive
39. HOW IS A SEX-LINKED CONDITION
LIKE COLOR BLINDNESS (WHICH IS
LOCATED ON THE X CHROMOSOME)
MOST COMMONLY PASSED? FROM
WHOM-TO-WHOM?
carrier mothers to sons
40. A TRAIT WHICH IS CONTROLLED
BY A POLYGENIC PATTERN OF
INHERITANCE WOULD SHOW HOW
MANY PHENOTYPES
a wide range of variety in the
phenotypes
41. WHAT IS THE NAME FOR A
MOLECULE FROM BACTERIA THAT
CAN BE USED TO CUT DNA?
Restriction Enzyme
42. IN ORDER TO DETERMINE IF AN
ANIMAL WAS BIPEDAL, SCIENTISTS
WOULD LOOK AT THESE STRUCTURES.
Pelvis
Skull
43. WHAT TYPE OF FOSSIL WAS “LUCY”
Australopithicus
afarensus
44. WHICH WAS OLDER;
A. AFRICANUS OR A. AFARENSUS?
A.
afarensus
45. HOW DID THE FIRST PROKARYOTES
OBTAINED THEIR FOOD
by consuming organic molecules
available in their environment