DNA
Chi
Zygosity
Application
Random Facts
100

The structure is a double helix.

What is DNA?

100

The purpose of this test is to compare the expected results with the experimental results.

What is a Chi Square test?

100

Someone with two dominant alleles would be considered.

What is homozygous dominant?

100

An experiment is done to examine the fitness of hyenas. 343 hyenas were tagged and mark for the experiment for 10 months. What is the sample size for this experiment?

343

100

What is Mr.X's last name?

Tong

200

Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil

What are nucleotides?

200

The value of .05 is generally used as a threshold for this.

What is Statistical Significance?

200

The alleles that determine the phenotype of the organism. Usually displayed as two letters.

What is a genotype?

200

If 25% of the population has long hair, out of 444 people would you expect to have long hair?

What is 111 people?

200

Viserion, Drogon, and Rhaegal

What are the dragons from Game of Thrones?

300

DNA that is tightly wound to allow for storage

What is a chromosome?

300

(# of Categories - 1) is used to calculate this.

What is degrees of freedom?
300

When a dominant allele is present the phenotype for that allele will be expressed in the organism.

What is the Principle of Dominance?

300

Given a homozygous dominant parent and a heterozygous parent, what is the percent chance for each different potential offspring?

50% homozygous dominant, 50% heterozygous

300

The third planet from the sun.

What is Earth?

400

Humans have a specific amount of chromosomes inherited from each parent.

What is 23 pairs?

400

If you reject the null hypothesis, then you could say that the data was a ?

What is a poor fit?

400

Two differently colored cows mate and their offspring have both colors present. What kind of dominance is this?

What is co-dominance?

400

Given a degree of freedom value of 4, and a Chi Square value of 9.5, should we reject or not reject the null hypothesis.

Reject the null hypothesis

400
This recent(ish) adaptation of a fantasy novel, was turned into three movies from one book.

What is the Hobbit?

500

Someone with an X and Y chromosome would be this gender.

What is a male?
500

An experiment was done with dragons, tigers, lions, lioness, salamanders, and monkeys. What is the degree of freedom?

What is five?

500

If you have a homozygous recessive parent and a heterozygous parent mate, what is the percent chance that the offspring will express the dominant allele?

What is 50%?

500

The equation for a Chi Square calculation.

What is the sum of (observed - expected)2 / expected?

500

I had a photo of a meme for the first Powerpoint of the semester. What was the meme?

Oh, the huemanatee