Misc.
What is Erosion
What type of cells are effected by the process of mitosis?
Where does an organism get it's DNA from?
What is It is inherited from it's parents.
What type of rock aging will give you an numeric age of the rock?
What is absolute aging
When we decided which two parents are going to reproduce to make an offspring, what type of gene technology is that?
What is Artificial selection or Selective breeding
Sediments are small pieces of rock. What does the following state mean, "Accumulation of sediments"?
What is Deposition or when rocks compile in an area
Through the process of meiosis, how many chromosomes will each daughter cell have?
What is 23. Meiosis divides twice.
How are two dominant trait parents able to produce a recessive trait offspring?
What is Both parents are heterozygous and carry the recessive trait
Rocks on the bottom layer are ___________ than rocks at the top.
What is Older
What are three examples of material that can be used in genetic engineering? HINT: it must be alive/organic
What is Bacteria, Virus, Another Cell
What is the Law of Superposition?
**Will not give an exact age**
Which process results in IDENTICAL chromosomes after cell division?
What is mitosis
What is the purpose of DNA?
What is To give instructions for what an organism will look like
True or False: The law of superposition will give you the year that rock was formed?
What is False. The law of superposition is only relative aging.
True or False: Artificial Selection is always beneficial to make better crops & animals.
What is False. Think of the dog examples from the GeneTech slides
What are three pieces of evidence to support the hypothesis of continental drift?
What is fossils, climate and land features
In mitosis, why does the DNA duplicate (double)?
What is So that each daughter cell can have 46 chromosomes.
If an organism is heterozygous for a trait, which allele will show?
What is Dominant allele
If a rock was found with 1/4th of it's original about of an element, how many half lives did it live?
What is 2
Name of benefit of genetic engineering on farms.
What is **Answers Vary** More crops can be made
What was the main reason scientist came up with plate tectonic theory from the hypothesis of continental drift?
What is Continental Drift did not explain HOW continents where able to move, but plate tectonic theory does
Name the main benefit to meiosis.
What is **Answers Vary** Something about genetic variation
DAILY DOUBLE: What does DNA stand for?
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is the next step when you find how many half lives a rock has lived through?
What is Multiply the half lives by the age given in the table by the question
Name a risk/con about the genetically engineered salmon that you learned.
What is **Answers Vary** Natural salmon could go extinct