DNA and Protein Synthesis
What is the complementary DNA sequence to GTG CAA ACT?
CAC GTT TGA
What is the term for a family tree that shows how traits get passed down from one generation to another?
Pedigree
Hanging earlobes are dominant to attached earlobes. If two heterozygous parents have a child, what are the odds that the child would have attached earlobes?
25%
Natural, Sexual, or Artificial Selection: Male peacocks have evolved to have large, beautiful feathers to attract mates.
Sexual Selection
When comparing layers of fossils, which layers would contain the oldest fossils?
The bottom layer
_______ : Nucleic Acids :: Amino Acids : Proteins
Nucleotides
If a normal somatic cell has 72 chromosomes, then how many chromosomes would be in the organism's gamete?
36 chromosomes
In cats, fur color displays incomplete dominance. Black is dominant to orange, but heterozygotes are speckled. What will be the resulting phenotypes of a cross between a black cat and an orange cat.
All speckled
Natural, Sexual, or Artificial Selection: The dark peppered moths were more successful when pollution caused the trees to be darker in color.
Natural Selection
What type of evidence can be used to compare every type of living thing on earth?
DNA (comparative biochemistry)
During transcription, DNA is unzipped and used as a template to make mRNA. Write the correct mRNA sequence for TTA ATT GGC.
AAU UAA CCG
If a human male produces a sperm cell, but through a mistake, that sperm cell is missing one chromosome, then how many chromosomes would be present in the cell?
22
Color-blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. What are the possible genotypes of the male offspring in a cross between a heterozygous mother and a normal father?
XB Y and Xb Y
On the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin studied the wide diversity of finch species that developed. What pattern of evolution describes how one species can give rise to many species?
Adaptive Radiation
Vestigial, Analogous, or Homologous: the pelvic bones of a whale
Vestigial
The codon is found on ________ and the anticodon is found on ___________.
mRNA / tRNA
What is the other name for Down Syndrome, that provides a hint as to the person's karyotype?
Trisomy 21
Two parents have eight children. The children all have Type A blood or Type B blood. The mother has Type AB blood. What is the blood type of the father?
Type O blood.
What are the four components of natural selection? (Needs all 4)
Overproduction / Variation / Adaptation / Selection
Vestigial, Analogous, or Homologous: The beak of a bird and the beak of a squid.
Analogous
What is the term for the worst type of point mutation, in which the codon is changed into a stop codon?
Nonsense Mutation
Down Syndrome is caused by a mistake in cell division, in which the cell gets one extra chromosome. What is the term for this mistake in cell division?
Nondisjunction
In a cross of incomplete dominance, a heterozygous pink flowered plant crosses with a homozygous recessive white flowered plant. In a cross of codominance, both parents are heterozygous for Type A. Between those crosses how much greater are the odds of having a child with Type A than producing plant offspring with white flowers?
25%
How is a phylogenetic tree different from a cladogram?
Phylogenetic trees show time
Vestigial, Analogous, or Homologous: the arm of a lion and the fin of a whale.
Homologous