Transcript Millionaire Reproduction

Who Wants to
Be a
Millionaire?
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Reproduction
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at right to proceed to the question
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Fifty - Fifty
50/50
You’ve asked that two of the
wrong answers be eliminated,
leaving you with one wrong
answer plus the correct one.
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Parents passing ___________ to
offspring is called __________.
50/50
A Traits, heredity
B Traits, mitosis
C
D
Skills, mitosis
Chemicals,
heredity
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What determines an organism’s
characteristics?
50/50
A
Only heredity
C
Only heredity and
the environment
B
Only the
environment
D
Heredity, the
environment and
learning
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Which of the following is an
example of a learned trait?
50/50
A
Superior
athletic ability
The size of your
B
muscles
C
Superior athletic
performance
D
The power of
your muscles
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Which of the following are
examples of asexual
reproduction?
50/50
A
Budding, spore
formation, and
meiosis
C
Mitosis, budding,
and spore
formation
B
Pollination,
mitosis, and from
body parts
D
Pollination,
meiosis, and from
body parts
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When fishers caught sea stars, they cut them into pieces
and threw them back into the water. The fishers later
saw that the sea stars reproduced and made many new
sea stars. How did the sea stars reproduce?
50/50
A
Asexually, by
budding
Asexually, from
B
body parts
C
Sexually, by
budding
D Sexually, from
body parts
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How can you determine the kind of
organism a cell belongs to?
50/50
By studying the
A cell’s function
C
By comparing the cell’s
shape with the shape of
the organism
B
By comparing the
cell’s size with the
size of the organism
D By studying the
cell’s DNA
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What is the relationship between a
species’ number of chromosomes and
the sizes of individual organisms?
50/50
A
As the number of
chromosomes increase,
size increases
C
There is no
relationship?
B
As the number of
chromosomes increases,
size decreases
D
It depends on how may
genes each
chromosome contains
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What happens when DNA
“unzips”?
50/50
One base
replaces another
The base pairs
B
come apart
C The base pairs
change partners
One base hops to
the other side of
the DNA ladder
A
D
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What process produces sex cells?
50/50
A
mitosis
B
splitting
C
fertilization
D
meiosis
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What is the Human Genome
Project doing?
50/50
A
Mapping all the
genes on a human
chromosome
C
Changing the human
chromosome to erase
all diseased genes
B
Creating a clone of
the human
chromosome
D
Determining which
mutations cause
diseases
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During fertilization, the first cell of
a new organism is called _______
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A
A sex cell
B
A zygote
C
An egg cell
D
A sperm cell
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In which part of a flowering plant
does fertilization occur?
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A
The pistil
C The pollen tube
B
The stamen
D
The ovules
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A male dog is purebred for the dominant
trait of a black coat. A female dog is
purebred for the recessive trait of a white
coat. What color coat will their offspring
have?
50/50
A
C
Black
B
White
Gray
D
Half will be black,
half will be white
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An organism with one dominant
and one recessive version of a
trait is called a _________.
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A
zygote
B
hybrid
C
mutant
D
purebred
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If a dog has 78 chromosomes,
how may chromosomes will it’s
sperm cell have?
50/50
A
39
B
78
C
156
D
49
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