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DATE
Honors Biology Midterm Review Guide
Spring 2010
Using the terms below, create your own notes/flash cards to help you study for the test. This will be a
multiple choice test and will count as 5% of your overall semester grade. Your science midterm will be on
March 9.
DNA / RNA:
Differences in DNA & RNA
Structure of DNA- parts of a nucleotide
Types of RNA
Definitions of: Replication,Transcription andTranslation
Know how to transcribe DNA and how to translate mRNA using a codon chart
Mutations - definition & types of
Ribosome structure
Meiosis:
Definition
Differences in: haploid; diploid; tetrad
Gametes vs. Somatic cells
Interphase
Phases of Meiosis
Crossing over Nondisjunction
Genetics:
Laws of: Dominance, Segregation and Independent Assortment
Gregor Mendel
Complete dominance, Incomplete dominance and Codominance
Multiple Alleles and Sex-linked traits
Allele vs. Genes
Homozygous vs. Heterozygous
Genotype vs. Phenotype
Monohybrid vs. Dihybrid Crosses
Autosomes vs. sex chromosomes
Which are more prevalent - - human recessive allelic disorders or dominant allelic disorders?
Be able to form gametes from parental genotypes that are given. Ex: TtRR as a parental genotype
Punnett squares of all types of problems covered
Gene therapy, Vector, Transgenic organisms and Recombinant DNA
Genetic Disorders: Hemophilia, PKU, Cystic Fibrosis andSickle cell anemia
Evolution:
Lamarck & his theory
Charles Darwin & his theory
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Vestigial Structures
Fossil dating (relative)
Geologic Time Scale - - age of earth for example
Gene Flow
NAME
DATE
Honors Biology Midterm Review Guide
Spring 2010
Using the terms below, create your own notes/flash cards to help you study for the test. This will be a
multiple choice test and will count as 5% of your overall semester grade. Your science midterm will be on
March 9.
DNA / RNA:
Differences in DNA & RNA
Structure of DNA- parts of a nucleotide
Types of RNA
Definitions of: Replication,Transcription andTranslation
Know how to transcribe DNA and how to translate mRNA using a codon chart
Mutations - definition & types of
Ribosome structure
Meiosis:
Definition
Differences in: haploid; diploid; tetrad
Gametes vs. Somatic cells
Interphase
Phases of Meiosis
Crossing over Nondisjunction
Genetics:
Laws of: Dominance, Segregation and Independent Assortment
Gregor Mendel
Complete dominance, Incomplete dominance and Codominance
Multiple Alleles and Sex-linked traits
Allele vs. Genes
Homozygous vs. Heterozygous
Genotype vs. Phenotype
Monohybrid vs. Dihybrid Crosses
Autosomes vs. sex chromosomes
Which are more prevalent - - human recessive allelic disorders or dominant allelic disorders?
Be able to form gametes from parental genotypes that are given. Ex: TtRR as a parental genotype
Punnett squares of all types of problems covered
Gene therapy, Vector, Transgenic organisms and Recombinant DNA
Genetic Disorders: Hemophilia, PKU, Cystic Fibrosis andSickle cell anemia
Evolution:
Lamarck & his theory
Charles Darwin & his theory
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Vestigial Structures
Fossil dating (relative)
Geologic Time Scale - - age of earth for example
Gene Flow