Crossword 2

Question 1

An organism’s physical appearance

Answer 1

Phenotype

Question 2

each branch point on a phylogeny represents the divergence of _____ speceis

Answer 2

two

Question 3

phylogenies are inferred from morphological and _____ data

Answer 3

molecular

Question 4

alternative versions of a gene

Answer 4

allele

Question 5

535mya

Answer 5

cambrian

Question 6

a string of amino acids in called a

Answer 6

protein

Question 7

a molecular unit of heredity in a living organism

Answer 7

gene

Question 8

descent with modification

Answer 8

evolution

Question 9

_____ tissue does not get passed on to the next generation

Answer 9

somatic

Question 10

a supposition or a sustem of ideas intended to explain a set o observations

Answer 10

theory

Question 11

All life has a universal language t/f

Answer 11

true

Question 12

DNA is made of a phosphate, ____ and a nitrogenous base

Answer 12

sugar

Question 13

A co-contributor to the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection; discovered in a malarial haze

Answer 13

Wallace

Question 14

tissue responsible for passing on genetic information to the next generation

Answer 14

Gene

Question 15

DNA (what the letters stand for)

Answer 15

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 16

the father of taxonomy

Answer 16

Linnaeus

Question 17

Natural selection ins a guarantee of progress: t/f

Answer 17

false

Question 18

he crafted the heliocentric model of the universe

Answer 18

coperricus

Question 19

cell growth

Answer 19

mitosis

Question 20

mendel’s heritable factors

Answer 20

gene

Question 21

the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species

Answer 21

phylogeny

Question 22

evolution is both a fact and a theory; t/f

Answer 22

true

Question 23

a scientific term for the ability to survive and successfully reproduce

Answer 23

fitness

Question 24

heating, cooling and replication are the three steps in the

Answer 24

PCR

Question 25

F1 si the first ____ generation

Answer 25

filial

Question 26

thymine, adenine cytosine and _____

Answer 26

guanine

Question 27

a ____ tree includes a branch to represent the last common ancestor of all taxa in the tree

Answer 27

rooted

Question 28

father of genetics

Answer 28

Mendel

Question 29

all living organisms are related through an unbroken chain of events t/f

Answer 29

true

Question 30

proposed a testable theory of evolution in 1859

Answer 30

Darwin

Question 31

Mendel + Darwin =

Answer 31

Neodarwinism

Question 32

the product of transcription is

Answer 32

RNA

Question 33

an organism that has two different alleles for a gene

Answer 33

heterozygous

Question 34

the process where two 1N gametes are fused

Answer 34

fertilization

Question 35

an unusual heat stable DNA polymerase

Answer 35

TAQ

Question 36

minimum number of genes all living organisms share

Answer 36

60

Question 37

________ life emerged approximately 1bya

Answer 37

multicellular

Question 38

hey revealed the nature of DNA

Answer 38

Watson and Crick

Question 39

diploid to haploid

Answer 39

meiosis

Question 40

the axes of a phylogeny are time and _______

Answer 40

diversity

Question 41

true- breeding _____ are the P generation

Answer 41

parents

Question 42

genes provide both the continuity and the differences between parents and ________

Answer 42

offspring

Question 43

if the DNA sequence is TCGAACG the RNA sequence is

Answer 43

AGCUUGC

Question 44

the product of translation is

Answer 44

protein

Question 45

coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’

Answer 45

spencer

Question 46

the ______ is 4.6 b. y. old

Answer 46

earth