Marvelous Mendel
Genes or Jeans
You say Mayosis
I say Myosis
I say Myosis
Cracking the Code
Thy Kingdom Come
Random Facts
The Wonder of Creation!
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He identified the role of probability to genetic inheritance and is called the Father of _____ .
Who is: Gregor Mendel
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In 1873, this company obtained the first patent for blue jeans.
What is: Levi Strauss and Co.
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Preprogrammed cell death
What is: apoptosis
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Sugar in RNA
What is: ribose
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All living things are classified into one of ___ Kingdoms.
4, 5, 6
What are: 6 Kingdoms (Animal, Plant, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria, Archaebacteria)
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Viral illnesses can be prevented via _____; Bacterial infections can be treated with ______ .
What is: virus prevented via vaccine
Bacterial infections treated via antibiotics
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Two robins competing for the same nesting site is an example of ________ competition.
What is: intraspecific
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Gregor Mendel conducted experiments tracing the inheritance of 7 characteristics in this plant.
What is: pea plants
(Ex: height, color, texture, flower position)
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Section of chromosome containing the code for a particular trait.
What is: gene
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Cell type produced via meiosis
What is: germ cells (aka egg or sperm)
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Sections of DNA that don't code for proteins and are edited out of mRNA.
What are: Introns
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Which Phylum of the Animal Kingdom has the most members?
Molluscs (snails,squids, etc) / Arthropods (insects) / Chordates (mammal, reptiles, etc.)
What is: Arthropods (insects) = 1.2million species
molluscs = 100,000 species
chordates = 65,000species
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What two elements in water runoff from agricultural and developed areas can cause algae blooms?
What are: Nitrogen & Phosphorus
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Why do the Hawaiian islands have so many species not found anywhere else in the world?
What is: geographic isolation
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Mendel had these two vocations:
botanist & monk / botanist & doctor / entomology & priest
What are: botanist and monk (in Austro-Hungary in the 1800s)
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CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES! GET THIS RIGHT & SUBTRACT 30 PTS FROM 2 TEAMS OF YOUR CHOICE!
The amount of our human DNA that is unique from other people is ...
10%, 1%, .1%
What is: .1%
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Stage of cell cycle during which the organelles are doubled to prepare for the S phase.
What is: G1
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Who's rule means that the count of A & G = T + C?
Who is: Chargaff
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Which kingdoms are entirely heterotrophic in their energy acquisition?
What are: fungi & animals
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Which molecule taken in by plants for photosynthesis light reactions gives us the oxygen we breathe?
What is: water H2O
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When a population reaches this ecosystem limit, it will crash.
What is: carrying capacity
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Mendelian inheritance refers to the fact that some traits have d_____ and r______ alleles.
What are: dominant and recessive alleles
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Two unaffected parents who have an affected child must be _______ carriers of the trait.
What is: heterozygous (ex/ Tt x Tt)
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Stage of the cell cycle during which two daughter nuclei form.
What is: M stage (mitosis)
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Unzips the two DNA strands during replication.
What is: helicase
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Which two kingdoms have members who are entirely multicellular?
What are: plants & animals
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Which fungal phyla do we use in baking (yeast) and cooking (morels & truffles)?
What is: Ascomycetes
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Theory that photosynthetic prokaryotes inhabited another cell, evolving into chloroplasts.
What is: Endosymbiotic Theory
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What is the probability that the offspring of these two pea plants will be green ?
What is: 2:4 or 50% will be heterzygous green (Gg)
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Chromosomal disorder caused by an extra (3 total) chromosome #21.
What is: Down syndrome
50
Proteins that regulates the cell cycle
What are: cyclins
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DNA replication is ________, meaning the new helical molecule has 1 original and 1 newly duplicated strand.
What is: semiconservative
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Which Kingdom has members who are: autotrophs or heterotrophs, single-celled or multicelluar, sessile or motile?
What is: Protista (the "catch all" kingdom)
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Which plant groups reproduce via seeds?
Options: bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms
What are: gymnosperms & angiosperms
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Parasitism is one of the 3 symbiotic relationships between species. The protist Plasmodium is transmitted via a mosquito vector causing this human illness.
What is: malaria
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Law that alleles for different characteristics segregate independently during gamete formation.
What is: Independent Assortment
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Radioactive marker experiment w/ bacteriophage DNA, confirmed DNA, not protein, was genetic material.
What is: Hershey-Chase experiment
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Cancer is uncontrolled cell division. This is the term for cancer spreading into surrounding tissues or throughout the body.
What is metastasis?
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The 3 components of a nucleotide.
What are: 5-carbon sugar + phosphate + nitrogen base
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Which of the 3 domains has about 10,000 members, is found everywhere, and includes species who can form endospores lasting 100s of years?
What is: Bacteria
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A tree is the ______ generation and its blossom is the ____ generation.
What is: tree= sporophyte
flower = gametophyte
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Which is NOT a characteristic all members of the Class Mammalia (mammals) share?
hair or fur / feeding young milk / giving birth to live young / 3 middle ear bones
What is: giving birth to live young
The Order Monotremes (platypus and echina) are egg-laying mammals