Genetics
The central dogma of molecular biology
What is DNA --> RNA via transcription, RNA --> protein via translation.
In a pedigree, this is the shape that represents males.
WHat is a square?
Evidence for evolution that looks at the development of different species from fertilization
What is embryology?
Regulate body temperature by movement, sun, or other outside resources.
What is an ectotherm?
UACGGCGAUCGGAAU relation to AUGCCGCUAGCCUUA
What is the anti-codon?
A trait that is carried on the x-chromosome.
What is an X-linked trait?
Inherited characteristic that improves an organism's chance for survival.
What is an adaptation?
A distribution developed from predator-prey interaction.
What is uniform distribution?
The enzyme that adds DNA nucleotides to the lagging strand of DNA.
What is DNA polymerase?
A female mates with a man who has the recessive trait of webbed feet. They have three kids. Their second child is a female with webbed feet, the other kids are normal. The mother has a genotype of...
Make the pedigree.
What is... ?
Causes variation in populations
What is meiosis, mutations, crossing over, genetic drift, gene flow....?
The NPP of a desert is 2000 kcal/m^2. If respiration by cacti produces 10,000kcal/m^2/yr. GPP is...
What is 12,000 kcal/m^2/yr?
If UV radiation causes a T base to disappear from a genetic sequence, the resulting amino acid added will be wrong after this mutation.
What is a frame shift mutation?
A heterozygous tall pea plant with green seeds is crossed with a short pea plant with homozygous yellow seeds.
Yellow seeds are dominant to green
Tall plants are dominant to short.
The probability of having short plant with green seeds is...
What is zero chance?
the idea that evolution occurs in spurts instead of following the slow, but steady path
What is punctuated equilibrium?
An ecosystem intakes 550,000 kcal/m^2/yr. if the ecosystem is 10,000m^2. Total energy supplied to wolves within the ecosystem over a year...
What is 55,000,000 kcal?
There is 15% Guanine in a DNA sequence, according to Chargaff's Rules, the percentage of adenine would be...
What is 35% ?
A type A mother has a child with Type B blood. The mother has blood genotype...
What is AO?
In a population 350 individuals are hairy and 150 individuals are bald. Bald is a recessive trait.
What percentage of the population is heterozygous?
Assume Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
What is 49.5 %?
There is a poplation of 452 rabbits with a birth rate of 0.48 and death rate of 0.25. The carrying capacity is 1500. the growth rate over the next year is...
What is 72.6 rabbits ?