Science Test Review
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Outcomes that will be tested:
110-3
identify major shifts in scientific world views
304-11 Illustrate and describe the basic process of mitosis and meiosis
305-2
305-3
305-5
Distinguish between sexual and asexual reproduction in representative organisms
Compare sexual and asexual reproduction and their advantages and disadvantages
Discuss factors that may lead to changes in a cell’s genetic information
1. Discuss shifts in scientific world views related to the development of the cell
theory
2. Mitosis
a. What are the 3 purposes of mitosis?
b. What are the 4 stages
c. What order do the 4 stages go in?
3. Cancer
a. What are the leading causes of cancer?
b. How can it be prevented?
c. What is cancer at the cellular level?
4. Name 3 types of Asexual Reproduction studied class
5. Give an example of each type of asexual reproduction
6. Explain asexual reproduction;
a. What process takes place (mitosis or meiosis)?
b. Are the new cells different or the same as the parents?
c. What are the advantages
d. What are the disadvantages
7. Sexual Reproduction
a. Name 3 types of sexual reproduction
b. Give an example of each type
c. Explain each type
d. What are the advantages
e. What are the disadvantages
8. Know the following definitions
a. Double stranded
g. Diploid
chromosome
h. Zygote
b. Chromatid
i. Gametes
c. Sister chromatids
j. Sex cells
d. Homologous
k. Egg
chromosomes or
l. Sperm
Homologous pair
m. Fertilization
e. Centromere
n. Dominant / Recessive
f. Haploid
o. DNA
9. Meiosis
a. What is the purpose of meiosis?
b. How many cells are formed?
c. What are these cells called?
d. What are the chromosomes doing at each phase?
e. Where does meiosis take place?
10. Compare Mitosis and Meiosis
a. # of cells produced
b. Type of cells produced
c. Number of divisions
d. Metaphase vs Metaphase 1
11. Relate and explain at the cellular level.
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