BIO 108 Unit 4 Trivia!

Gene Regulation

100

A repressable operon is one that is usually....?

What is on?

200

What kind of feedback system is represented by the lac and trp operons?

What is a negative control?

300

What are the two separate classes of small single-stranded RNA molecules that have been shown to have effects on the translation of mRNAs?

What are microRNAs and small interfering RNAs?

400

What is the difference between oncogenes and proto-oncogenes?

What is oncogenes are cancer-causing cells, and proto-oncogenes are for normal cellular growth and division?

500

What are the two examples given of epigenetic changes, and where must they be reversed? 

What are histone acetylation and DNA methylation, they must be reversed in the nucleus of a donor animal? 

Evolution

100

What is gradualism?

What is the idea that change can take place through the cumulative effect of slow but continuous processes?

200

What is the similarity resulting from common ancestry?

What is homology?

300

What is the similarity resulting from convergent evolution?

What is analogy?

400

What is a paraphyletic grouping?

What consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all, of the descendants?

500

What is meant by maximum parsimony?

What is the principle that assumes that the tree requires the fewest evolutionary events?

Population Genetics

100

What is evolved by natural selection?

What are populations?

200

Which two processes produce variation in gene pools?

What are mutation and sexual reproduction? 

300

What kind of population is described by the Hardy-Weinberg principle?

What is a population that is not evolving?

400

What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? 

What is p²+2pq+q²?

500

*DAILY DOUBLE*

What are the five conditions that must be met for the Hardy-Weinberg theorem to be valid?

What are: A very large population, random matings,  there are no net changes, there is no migration in or out of the population, and there is no natural selection in the gene pool due to mutation?

Origin of Species

100

What is speciation?

What is the origin of a new species?

200

What are the two types of barriers that impede two species from producing viable, fertile hybrids?

What are prezygotic and postzygotic barriers?

300

What are the two types of speciation?

What are allopatric and sympatric speciation?

400

What is an allopolyploid?

What is a species with multiple sets of chromosomes derived from different species?

500

What are the five types of prezygotic barriers?

What are: habitat isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, and gametic isolation?

Final Review!

100

What kind of reaction has a release of free energy?

What is an exergonic reaction?

200

Which stage of meiosis does synapsis occur?

What is prophase I?

300

What is RNA splicing?

What is the removal of the noncoding regions of mRNA transcripts?

400

What is the protein shell that encloses a viral genome? 

What is a capsid?

500

What type of inheritance where the heterozygotes have a result of an intermediate phenotype from each homozygote?

What is incomplete dominance?