Biomed (FINAL)

Question 1

What’s the pattern of ridges in a fingerprint called? (A _____ _______)

Answer 1

A ridge pattern

Question 1

What’s a fingerprint minutiae? (which _____ pattern is which)

Answer 1

Which ridge pattern is which

Question 2

What does plasma transport things through?

Answer 2

Blood

Question 3

What do confirmatory tests identify? (Identifies ___ _________)

Answer 3

One substance

Question 4

What proteins are found on the red blood cells’ surface? (B____ A_______)

Answer 4

Blood antigens

Question 5

What do antibodies attatch to? (hint - similar to antibodies)

Answer 5

Attach to antigens

Question 6

What’s an independent variable?

Answer 6

The factor that the scientists manipulate

Question 7

What’s a dependent variable?

Answer 7

What’s measured in an experiment

Question 8

What’s a cell? (basic ________ in ______ things)

Answer 8

Basic function in living things

Question 9

What’s a nucleus? (an ________ that contains _______ material)

Answer 9

An organelle that contains genetic material

Question 10

What are histones (Protein ________ which ___ is twisted)

Answer 10

Protein molecules which DNA is twisted

Question 11

What is DNA? (double-stranded ____ ________)

Answer 11

Double-stranded acid molecule

Question 12

What do genetics study? (H_______)

Answer 12

Heredity

Question 13

What’s a gene? (a bit of ___ on a __________)

Answer 13

A bit of DNA on a chromosome

Question 14

What’s a genome? (all _______ info in an ________)

Answer 14

All genetic info in an organism

Question 15

What’s a chromosome? (thread-like _________ made of DNA _________)

Answer 15

Thread-like structure made of DNA molecules

Question 16

What are base pairs? (pairs formed between _____ in the structure of ___)

Answer 16

Pairs formed between bases in the structure of DNA

Question 17

Eukaryotic cells (think on what a prokaryotic cell doesn’t have)

Answer 17

Has a nucleus/organelle that bond by membranes

Question 18

Prokaryotic cells (think on what a eukaryotic cell has)

Answer 18

Doesn’t have a nucleus/organelle that bond by membranes

Question 19

What’s an organelle? (small ____ structures that carry out a ________ within the ____)

Answer 19

Small cell structures that carry out a function within the cell

Question 20

Nucleotide (monomer of _______ _____)

Answer 20

Monomor of nucleic acids

Question 21

DNA profile (a person’s ___ ________ )

Answer 21

A person’s unique DNA sequence

Question 22

Restriction enzymes (recognizes specific ____ _____ and ____ it)

Answer 22

Recognizes specific base pairs and cuts it

Question 23

PCR (technique that allows __________ to make lots of ______ of a ____)

Answer 23

Technique that allows biologists to make lots of copies of a gene

Question 24

Recognition site (a specific ____ ____ where a __________ ______ will cut)

Answer 24

Specific base pair where a restriction enzyme will cut

Question 25

Restriction digest (___________ _______ used to cut ___)

Answer 25

Restriction enzymes used to cut DNA

Question 26

What's a gel electrophoresis? (used to separate ___ _________ by placing a mixture of ___ on a ___)

Answer 26

Used to separate DNA fragments by placing a mixture of DNA on a gel

Question 27

RFLP (differences in ____that can result in _________ _______)

Answer 27

Differences in DNA that can result in different patterns

Question 28

DNA ladder (different-sized ___ _________ in ____ _____)

Answer 28

Different-sized DNA fragments in base pairs

Question 29

What are DNA bands? (_____ on the agarose gel once _______)

Answer 29

Lines on the agarose gel once stained

Question 30

What's a well? (a ____ in an agarose gel)

Answer 30

Hole in an agarose gel where DNA is inserted

Question 31

Agarose gel

Answer 31

A jelly slab

Question 32

What's a micropipette? (tool used to insert ___ into the _____)

Answer 32

Tool used to insert DNA into the wells