Biology 241 – Lecture
INTRODUCTORY QUIZ
Name:_____________________________________
Throughout the introductory and general Biology courses that are prerequisites to this Biology 241//242, you
undoubtedly learned to use a lot of abbreviated forms or “shorthand-notations” to express certain biological
processes or events. Recalling some of those processes or events, MATCH each “shorthand-notation” from the
left column with the one noun from the right column that BEST describes it.
_____1. LIFE → LIFE
_____2. The physical, chemical, and behavioral expression
of the genes possessed by an organism.
_____3. DNA → mRNA
_____4. PQ + RS → PR + QS
_____5. How the allele combination aaBB
can be equally as common as AAbb
_____6. 2n → 2 ∙ 2n
_____7. Dead/Decaying/Debris → LIFE
_____8. mRNA → Protein
_____9. DNA → DNA
____10. XYZ → X + Y + Z
____11. 2n → 4 ∙ 1n
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B.
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G.
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J.
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N.
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Active Transport
Anabolism
Biogenesis
Catabolism
Diffusion
Genotype
Independent assortment
Meiotic cell division
Metabolism
Mitotic cell division
Osmosis
Phenotype
Replication
Segregation
Spontaneous Generation
Transcription
Translation
____12. In meiotic cell division, how some gametes
have the A allele and some have the a allele.
____13. The catalogue of all genes of an organism
____14. A + B → AB
15. Write the OVERALL CHEMICAL REACTION/EQUATION for Aerobic Cellular Respiration:
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16. In answering the following question, (a) show your Punnett Square, (b) indicate the probability of producing
this offspring and (c) indicate the ratio of all offspring. Can a man with type B blood be the Father of a child
with type O blood, if the Mother of said child has type A blood? Use the back of this sheet for your answers.