Please pass the peas
Father of genetics who based his studies on the garden pea.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Percent probability of having yellow peas if yellow is recessive in the following cross:
Gg X Gg
What is 25%?
The bonds between nitrogenous bases.
What are hydrogen bonds?
Forms the "spools" around which DNA winds in chromatin.
What are histones?
The change in the position of continents over time.
What is continental drift?
Offspring ALWAYS demonstrate the same phenotype when parents of this type are crossed.
What are true breeders?
Possible gametes for the following:
GgSs
What are GS, Gs, gS, gs?
On the mRNA molecule, the 3 letter base unit is called this.
What is the codon?
Areas of highly coiled chromatin that are effectively inactive.
What is heterochromatin?
Loss of large numbers of species withing a few million years or less.
What is mass extinction?
The offspring of the P generation.
Probability (in percent) of tallness, where T=tall, in the following cross:
Tt X TT
What is 100%?
What is antiparallel?
In the operon model of transcriptional control in bacteria, this is where RNA Polymerase attaches.
What is the promoter?
Era in which the first cells appeared.
What is the Precambrian?
This allele masks the expression of this allele.
What is dominant; recessive?
Number of phenotypes with short, yellow peas in the following cross:
TtGg X TtGg
What is 1?
The term that indicates DNA replication contains half an old strand and half a new strand.
What is semi-conservative?
Barrel shaped structures where protease activity occurs are also known as this.
What are proteosomes?
Based on the concept of ancestral and derived characteristics.
What is Linnean Systematics?
The physical appearance of an individual.
What is phenotype?
IAi mother and IBi father
What is A, AB, B, and O?
On one end of mRNA is a guanine cap. On the other end is this.
What is a Poly-A tail?
These bind to mRNA to dampen or prevent the translation of a protein.
What is miRNA?
The two-part naming system used to identify species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Phenotypic ratio for a dihybrid cross of heterozygotes?
What is 9:3:3:1?
Probability (percent) of male geckos with yellow-tails where R=red tails and r=yellow tails in the following cross:
XRY x XRXr
What is 50% of males? (25% of all possible phenotypes)
The end of tRNA that binds to mRNA.
What is the anti-codon?
Which of the following genes code for proteins that inhibit the cell cycle and promote apoptosis?
What are tumor suppressor genes?
A depiction of evolutionary history based on data and using the ingroup/outgroup concept.
What is a cladogram?
Test procedure in which a small amount of fluid is removed from around the developing fetus.
What is amniocentesis?
Number of blue-flowered tall plants where
B=Blue-flowered b=white-flowered
T=Tall t=short
and the cross is BbTt x BBTt
What is 12?
BBTT=2 BBTt=4
BbTt=4 BbTT=2
(Blue-flowered short: BBtt=2; Bbtt=2)
Type of mutation involving a change in which a nucleotide is inserted or deleted.
What is a frameshift mutation?
When cancer cells initiate new tumors far from the primary tumor.
The assumption that the minimum number of assumptions is the most logical and correct.
What is parsimony?