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Quiz # 12 Mitosis
1. What is the end result of mitosis? ________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. At which phase of a cell’s life do the chromosomes get copied?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Metaphase
Prophase
Telophase
Anaphase
Interphase
3. What phase is most of a cell’s life spent in?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Metaphase
Prophase
Telophase
Anaphase
Interphase
4. Where is DNA found in the cell?
a.
b.
c.
d.
cell membrane
chromosomes
nucleus
cell wall
5. In _________, a body part uses mitosis to regrow and may form a new organism?
a. Fission
b. budding
c. regeneration
d. sexual reproduction
6. Budding and regeneration are two types of _______________ reproduction?
a. Asexual
b. mutation
c. sexual
d. fertilization
7. Asexual reproduction results in new bacteria whose genetic material is ________________
a.
b.
c.
d.
identical to that of the parent
not identical to that of the parent
half identical to both parents
none of the above
8. Meiosis results in _________________________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
4 daughter cells with two times the chromosomes of the parent cell
4 daughter cells with one half the chromosomes of the parent cell
2 daughter cells with two times the chromosomes of the parent cell
2 daughter cells with the same amount of chromosomes of the parent cell
9.Which kind of cell division (mitosis or meiosis) accounts for variety in a population of a species? Explain
the evidence for your answer?
10. The amount of cytosine in DNA always equals the amount of ________
a. Guanine
b. Thymine
c. Adenine
d. Uracil
11. What does meiosis produce?
a. cells with a diploid number of chromosomes
c. cells with identical chromosomes
b. sex cells
d. a zygote
12. Each human skin cell has ____ pairs of chromosomes.
a. 13
b. 18
c. 23
d. 46
13. Two sex cells coming together to form a new organism is called ______.
a. mutation
b. sexual reproduction
c. asexual reproduction
d. budding
14. If the sequence of the nitrogen bases on one side of DNA is ATCCTGA then the other side will be
______________________.
15. A ________________uses letters to represent dominant and recessive alleles to figure possible
offspring genotypes when two parents mate.
a. karyotype
b. Punnett Square
c. phenotype
d. double helix
16.
Which of the following represent a homozygous recessive individual?
a. TT
b. Tt
c. tT
d. tt
17. Mendel mated purebred tall plants with purebred short plants? He found all the offspring to be
tall. Use “T” for tall and “t” for short and show the mating in a Punnett Square?
18. What what did Mendel call the offspring of the above mating?
a. hybrids b. purebreds c. homozygous
d. mutations
19. The physical appearance of an organism is called its ______________.
a. genotype b. alleles
c. phenotype
d. Pedigree
20. The genetic make up of an organism is called its _______________.
a. genotype b. alleles
c. phenotype
d. Pedigree
21. Cystic fibrosis is disease of the lungs is caused by homozygous recessive alleles. What genotype
would allow someone to carry the disease allele and not have the disease?
a) homozygous dominant b) homozygous recessive
c) heterozygous