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Cells
1. How do enzymes speed up reactions?
2. What are characteristics of enzymes?
3. What does it mean if an enzyme is denatured?
4. What can cause an enzyme to become denatured?
5. For the following, identify the elements that make up the compounds- water,
proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids (fats).
6. The human body has 220 different cell types. How is this possible if they all
came from the same original cell and have the same DNA?
7. Define photosynthesis.
8. What is the balanced equation for photosynthesis?
9. What factors increase the rate of photosynthesis?
10. Define cellular respiration.
11. What is the balanced equation for cellular respiration?
12. How are aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration different?
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13. Differentiate between passive and active transport.
14. List 3 examples of passive transport and 3 examples of active transport.
15. What is cloning?
16. What is the function of an integral protein?
17. Define mitosis.
18. What is the law of independent assortment? How does it cause sex cells to have
such genetic variety?
19. Differentiate between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
20. Differentiate between haploid and diploid.
21. Why is it important that gametes are haploid?
Genetics
22. Define mutation and explain how it affects a cell.
23. How are mutations passed on to offspring?
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24. What is the function of DNA?
25. Draw a DNA ladder and label the deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen
bases, and hydrogen bonds.
26. What are the 3 parts to a nucleotide?
27. What is the complementary DNA strand to TCGAATCGGATAACT?
28. How many amino acids would the DNA strand above encode?
29. Tongue rolling is dominant to non-tongue rolling. If 2 heterozygous tongue rollers
mate, what is the probability that their child will be a tongue-roller?
30. Hemophilia is a recessive trait on the x sex chromosome. Cross a carrier female
and a hemophiliac male. What is the chance that they will have a child with
Hemophilia?
31. If a homozygous black cat mates with a homozygous white cat and the alleles
display co-dominance, what color of fur will the offspring kittens have?
32. Using the same parent cats above, how would the offspring be different if the
alleles displayed incomplete dominance?
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33. Differentiate between multiple alleles and polygenetic traits.
34. What cuts DNA at specific sequences for genetic engineering?
35. If several males are the possible father of a child, how can paternity be
determined?
Evolution
36. In terms of evolution, what does it mean if 2 organisms have similar DNA?
37. What has caused different forms of traits like eye color, hair color, etc.?
38. If there is more than one form of a trait (i.e. brown fur, black fur, white fur, etc.),
what causes one form to be more common in a population than another?
39. What has to occur for the genetics (allele frequencies) of a population to remain
stable (at equilibrium)?
40. What are all of the pieces of evidence that support common ancestry/close
evolution?
41. Write the Hardy-Weinberg equation and identify the homozygous recessive,
homozygous dominant and heterozygous populations.
42. What does it mean if organisms have similar limb bone structure, but use the
limbs differently?