Cell Analogy
Which part of the cell acts like "City Hall"?
What is a Nucleus?
What does each box inside a Punnett square represent?
What is a genotype?
This condition—characterized by a lack of melanin that results in white fur and pink eyes—greatly affects an animal's ability to camouflage in the wild.
What is albinism?
The process of taking the gray wolf and utilizing selective breeding over thousands of years to produce hundreds of diverse breeds ranging from the Chihuahua to the Great Dane.
What is domestication
Because they lack the enzyme needed to conjugate it in the liver, cats cannot safely metabolize this common human over-the-counter analgesic.
What is Acetaminophen?
What part of the cell is like a security guard or the city gates?
What is a Cell Membrane?
If a mother rabbit has the genotype \(Bb\) and a father rabbit also has the genotype \(Bb\) (where \(B\) is dominant for brown fur and \(b\) is recessive for white fur), what is the probability of an offspring having white fur?
What is 25%?
This mutation causes pets to have extra digits on their paws, famously found on the "Hemingway cats" of Key West.
What is polydactyly?
Another scientific term used to describe artificial selection, which involves purposefully picking parents to create offspring with specific characteristics.
What is selective breeding?
Under the Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act of 1994, veterinarians are permitted to prescribe drugs for this type of use outside of their FDA-approved label.
What is extra-label drug use?
What is the mitochondria?
If a homozygous dominant hornless bull HH is mated with a horned cow hh, what percentage of the offspring will be heterozygous and hornless?
What is 100%
A mutation in the KIT gene causes this pattern, which is famously associated with the black-and-white coats of certain horses and Great Danes.
What is the piebald (or pinto) mutation?
This type of animal has been selectively bred over many generations to produce offspring with higher muscle mass and increased milk production for agricultural resources.
What are cattle
Widely used in cattle and dogs, this specific class of antiparasitic drugs can be highly toxic to Collies and certain other herding breeds due to a genetic mutation in the ABCB1 (MDR1) gene.
What is Ivermectin?
What part of the cell functions like a post office or a delivery truck?
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The genotype is the actual set of alleles the animal possesses (e.g., Bb or bb, while the phenotype is the physical trait you can see (e.g., brown fur)
Found in certain goat breeds, a genetic mutation in the CLCN1 gene causes a muscle-stiffening condition that makes them faint when startled.
What is myotonia congenita?
The fainting trait in Fainting Goats (which prevents them from escaping enclosures) was purposely preserved over the last 120 years, making it an example of this.
What is artificial selection?
T 1/2 is the term in pharmacokinetics used to describe the time required for half of the drug to be eliminated from the body.
What is the half-life?
If the cell is a factory, what are the ribosomes analogous to?
What is a Worker?
In fruit flies, red eyes are dominant (\(E\)) and white eyes are recessive (\(e\)). If a female fly with white eyes (\(ee\)) is crossed with a male fly that is homozygous dominant for red eyes (\(EE\)), what are the possible genotypes of their offspring?
What is 100%?
The short-legged trait in Munchkin cats is caused by a dominant genetic mutation resulting in this condition, similar to human dwarfism.
What is achondroplasia?
In natural selection, the environment dictates survival, whereas in artificial selection, this factor chooses which organisms survive and reproduce.
Who are humans?
The federal agency that regulates and monitors the use and storage of controlled substances in veterinary practices, such as opioids and barbiturates.
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?