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Category 1 questions follow
Question
In a pedigree, what does a
darkened circle indicate about
the individual?
Answer
In a pedigree, what does a
darkened circle indicate about the
individual?
a. They are a female with the trait
Question
What is a karyotype a picture of and what can it tell
about an individual?
Answer
What is a karyotype a picture of and what can it tell
about an individual?
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A picture of an organisms DNA, lined up in pairs.
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It can indicate diseases caused by nondisjunction like Down’s
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Syndrome.(Trisomy 21) or Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) is a male
If XX it is female, XY is a male
the wrong number of chromosomes are present
Question
Match the following
1. Cloning
2. Desired DNA
3. Recombinant DNA
4. Plasmid
Answer
Match the following
A. Desired DNA
B. Plasmid
C. Recombinant DNA
D. Cloning
Question
You cross a heterozygous tall, Homozygous green (D)
with a heterozygous tall, homozygous yellow (R).
a. What are the genotypes of the parents?
b. Fill in the chart
c. What are the genotype/phenotype ratios?
Answer
You cross a heterozygous tall, Homozygous green (D)
with a heterozygous tall, homozygous yellow (R).
a. What are the genotypes of the parents?
Tt GG X Ttgg = TG, TG, tG, tG X Tg, Tg, tg, tg
a. Fill in the chart
b. What are the genotype/phenotype ratios?
Question
Transgenic Organism
a. Are produced by recombinant DNA
b. Are Genetically Engineered
c. Are called GMO
d. All of these
Answer
Transgenic Organism
a. Are produced by recombinant DNA
b. Are Genetically Engineered
c. Are called GMO
d. All of these
Category 2 questions follow
Question
Use the following information to solve the questions below.
T = able to roll the tongue
t = unable to roll the tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll her
tongue if…
One parent is homozygous dominant and the other
can’t roll their tongue?
Answer
T = able to roll the tongue
t = unable to roll the tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll her
tongue if…
One parent is homozygous dominant (TT) and the
other can’t roll their tongue (tt)?
100%
Question
T = able to roll the tongue
t = unable to roll the tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll her
tongue if…
One parent is heterozygous and the other can’t roll their
tongue?
Answer
T = able to roll the tongue
t = unable to roll the tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll her
tongue if…
One parent is heterozygous (Tt) and the other can’t roll
their tongue (tt)?
a. 50%
Question
T = able to roll the tongue
t = unable to roll the tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll her
tongue if…
Both parents are heterozygous?
Answer
T = able to roll the tongue t = unable to roll the
tongue
What is the probability that a child will be able to roll
her tongue if…
Both parents are heterozygous?
a. 75 %
Question
What is the genotype ratio for
the offspring?
Answer
What is the genotype ratio for the offspring?
1:2:1
Question
A red flower is crossed with a white flower and the
resulting offspring are all pink. What is this an example of?
a. Incomplete dominance hybridization
b. Co-dominance hybridization
c. Multiple alleles
d. Polygenic
Answer
A red flower is crossed with a white flower and the
resulting offspring are all pink. What is this an example of?
a. Incomplete dominance hybridization
b. Co-dominance hybridization
c. Multiple alleles
d. Polygenic
Category 3 questions follow
Question
A red flower is crossed with a white flower and the
resulting offspring are all red and white striped. What is
this an example of?
a. Incomplete dominance hybridization
b. Co-dominance hybridization
c. Multiple alleles
d. Polygenic
Answer
A red flower is crossed with a white flower and the
resulting offspring are all red and white striped. What
is this an example of?
a. Incomplete dominance hybridization
b. Co-dominance hybridization
c. Multiple alleles
d. Polygenic
Question
Can an AB type father have an O type child?
Answer
Can an AB type father have an O type child?
a. No, not even if the mother is OO
Question
What is the difference between what can be
determined with blood typing vs. DNA fingerprinting?
Answer
What is the difference between what can be
determined with blood typing vs. DNA fingerprinting?
Blood typing can eliminate someone, but DNA
fingerprinting can identify by matching a
suspect/paternity.
Question
A carrier
a. Is heterozygous but appears normal and does not
have the disease
b. Is homozygous and has the disease
Answer
A carrier
a. Is heterozygous but appears normal and does not
have the disease
b. Is homozygous and has the disease
Question
Which is NOT correct?
a. Mutations in a skin cell can not be inherited
b. All humans have 23 pair of chromosomes but the
23rd pair in males is XX and in females is XY
c. Sex-linked traits are on the X chromosome
d. Restriction enzymes cut DNA which are separated
by charge and length by electrophoresis
Answer
Which is NOT correct?
a. Mutations in a skin cell can not be inherited
b. All humans have 23 pair of chromosomes but the
23rd pair in males is XX XY and in females is XY XX
c. Sex-linked traits are on the X chromosome
d. Restriction enzymes cut DNA which are separated by
charge and length by electrophoresis
Category 4 questions follow
Question
What is the correct order?
a. Electrophoresis
b. Restriction enzymes
c. PCR
d. Compare crime scene and suspect DNA
Answer
What is the correct order?
a. PCR
b. Restriction enzymes
c. Electrophoresis
d. Compare crime scene and suspect DNA
Question
Humans have ___________% of DNA in common, with
only the section BNTR use to create a DNA fingerprint
a. 35,000
b. 46
c. 0.1
Answer
Humans have ___________% of DNA in common, with
only the section BNTR use to create a DNA fingerprint
a. 35,000
b. 46
c. 0.1
Question
Which is not true about DNA
a. Translation copies DNA
b. A-T and G-C match up
c. Its shape is a double helix
d. All are true about DNA
Answer
Which is not true about DNA
a. Translation copies DNA
b. A-T and G-C match up
c. Its shape is a double helix
d. All are true about DNA
Question
Match the Mutations
Normal DNA – ABC DEF
1. Point
a.
b.
c.
d.
2. Frameshift
3. Inversion
4. Translocation
AAC DEF
ABC 123
AAC FED
AAA CDE F
Answer
Match the Mutations
1. Point - AAC DEF
Normal DNA –
2. Frameshift- -AAA CDE F
ABC DEF
3. Inversion - AAC FED
4. Translocation - ABC 123
Question
Match the following
1. Cystic Fibrosis
2. PKU
3. Tay-Sachs
4. Huntingtons
a. Recessive Degenerative nerve
disease
b. Dominant Degenerative nerve
disease
c. Disorder where amino acids
cause brain damage
d. Disorder causing thick mucous in
lungs
Answer
1. Cystic Fibrosis - Disorder causing thick mucous in lungs
2. PKU - Disorder where amino acids cause brain damage
3. Tay-Sachs - Recessive Degenerative nerve disease
4. Huntingtons - Dominant Degenerative nerve disease
Category 5 questions follow
Question
Match the
following
1. mRNA
2. tRNA
3. rRNA
a. Ribosome
b. Matches codons to anticodons,
producing chains of aminoacids
c. DNA can not leave the nucleus,
but this replicated copy can leave
the nucleus
Answer
Match the following
1. mRNA - DNA can not leave the nucleus, but this
replicated copy can leave the nucleus
2. tRNA - Matches codons to anticodons, producing
chains of aminoacids
3. rRNA - Ribosome
Question
Blood typing is controlled by
a. Polygenics
b. Multiple alleles
Answer
Blood typing is controlled by
a. Polygenics
b. Multiple alleles
Question
Match
1. Transcription
2. Translation
3. replication
a. DNA is copied
b. Amino acids are
assembled
c. A complimentary copy of
DNA is produced
Answer
Match
1. Transcription- A complimentary copy of DNA is
produced
2. Translation- Amino acids are assembled
3. Replication -DNA is copied
Question
Which is not true about DNA?
a. Its is made up of genes
b. Genes code for proteins
c. Nucleotides are held together by strong hydrogen
bonds
Answer
Which is not true about DNA?
a. Its is made up of genes
b. Genes code for proteins
c. Nucleotides are held together by strong weak
hydrogen bonds
Question
What type of inheritance pattern?
a. sex-linked
b. Dominant
c. Recessive
Answer
What type of inheritance pattern?
a. sex-linked
b. Dominant
c. Recessive
If only one sex has the trait, it tends to
Be males because they are located on the X chromsome
So – Sex-linked would be males