M1: Science of Genetics

Question 1

It is the science of heredity and variation

Answer 1

Genetics

Question 2

It is the passing of characteristics from parents to offspring.

Answer 2

Heredity

Question 3

It is the difference in physical, chemical or behavioral attributes

Answer 3

Variation

Question 4

It defines heredity and variation

Answer 4

Genes

Question 5

It is basis of heredity during the time of Aristotle.

Answer 5

Humors

Question 6

It is about the fertilized egg containing a miniature adult, or homunculus.

Answer 6

Theory of Preformation

Question 7

Life comes from non-living components

Answer 7

Spontaneous Generation Theory or Abiogenesis Theory

Question 8

He abolishes the theory of spontaneous generation.

Answer 8

Louis Pasteur

Question 9

He developed the theory of Epigenesis

Answer 9

William Harvey

Question 10

It is about an organism develops from a fertilized egg by a succession of developmental events that transforms an egg into an adult.

Answer 10

Theory of Epigenesis

Question 11

They developed the Cell Theory.

Answer 11

Mathias Scheilden and Theodore Schwann

Question 12

1. All organisms are composed of basic structural units
2. Cells are derived from pre-existing cells.

Answer 12

Cell Theory.

Question 13

He wrote ‘The Origin of Species’ and developed the Theory of Natural Selection.

Answer 13

Charles Darwin

Question 14

Existing species arose by descent with modification from ancestral species.

Answer 14

The Origin of Species

Question 15

It is a mechanism of evolutionary change where survival of the fittest.

Answer 15

Natural Selection

Question 16

He had the same discovery as Charles Darwin about Natural Selection.

Answer 16

Alfred Russel Wallace

Question 17

The reason why Darwin and Wallace was not able to further defend their theory during their time.

Answer 17

Lack of understanding of genetics and inheritance

Question 18

He conducted a pea experiments which explains that generation to generation traits are passed in pea plants and other organism.

Answer 18

Gregor Johann Mendel

Question 19

They rediscovered Mendel’s work.

Answer 19

1. Hugo de Vries (flowering plants)
2. Carl Correns (maize and peas)
3. Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg (peas)

Question 20

They found that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation (Chromosome Theory of Inheritance).

Answer 20

Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri

Question 21

Inherited traits are controlled by genes residing on chromosomes.

Answer 21

Chromosome Theory of Inheritance

Question 22

He discovered the role of chromosome in heredity and received a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1933)

Answer 22

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Question 23

He discovered the transforming principle.

Answer 23

Frederick Griffith

Question 24

A chemical substance from one cell is capable of genetically transforming another cell.

Answer 24

Transforming Principle

Question 25

They supported Griffith’s Transforming Principle.

Answer 25

Oswald Avery, Colin Macleod, and Maclyn McCarty

Question 26

It is the transforming substance.

Answer 26

DNA

Question 27

They provided proof that DNA is a genetic material, and not RNA or protein.

Answer 27

Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

Question 28

They elucidated the DNA structure and received a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1962).

Answer 28

James Watson and Francis Crick

Question 29

She study DNA by X-Ray crystallographic techniques and received a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1962).

Answer 29

Maurice Wilkins

Question 30

The unofficial first to discover DNA thru DNA X-ray Diffraction as a X-ray Crystallographer.

Answer 30

Rosalind Franklin