module 4 Flashcards
The end product of meiosis is?
a. 4 diploid daughter cells
b. 4 haploid daughter cells
c. 2 diploid daughter cells
d. 2 haploid daughter cells
b. 4 haploid daughter cells
Which of the following steps takes place in both mitosis and meiosis?
a. Separation of sister chromatids
b. Separation of homologous chromosomes
c. Crossing over
d. Alignment of tetrads at the metaphase plate
e. Both A and B
a. Separation of sister chromatids
At what stage of the cell cycle do cells go through a period of growth to prepare for
mitosis?
a. S phase
b. G0 phase
c. G1 phase
d. G2 phase
e. M phase
d. G2 phase
Both Mendel’s Law of Segregation and Independent Assortment are partly due to what
factor?
a. Random alignment of sister chromatids during mitosis
b. Un-linked genes are located on different chromosomes
c. Linked genes are able to go through recombination
d. Condensing of chromosomes during prophase I
e. Separation of sister chromatids
b. Un-linked genes are located on different
If someone is a carrier for a gene this must mean that they are:
a. Homozygous recessive for the gene
b. Homozygous dominant for the gene
c. Heterozygous for the gene
c. Heterozygous for the gene
If an individual who is homozygous dominant for a gene and an individual is
homozygous recessive for a gene have offspring together, how many different genotypic
and phenotypic combinations are there if the gene behaves a simple mendelian trait?
a. 1 genotypic, 1 phenotypic
b. 2 genotypic, 1 phenotypic
c. 3 genotypic, 2 phenotypic
d. 3 genotypic, 3 phenotypic
e. 1 genotypic, 2 phenotypic
a. 1 genotypic, 1 phenotypic
Dr. Harrison’s potential genotypic combinations for eye color were BBgg and Bbgg and
his wife’s potential combinations were bbGG and bbGg. B is dominant and leads to
brown eye color. G is also dominant and leads to green eye color in the absence of a
dominant brown allele. Blue eye color needs the recessive alleles for both gene loci.
Given that they have a daughter with blue eyes. What are the chances they will have
another child with blue eyes?
a. 1/16
b. 1/4
c. 1/8
d. 1/2
e. 3/16
b. 1/4
Hemophilia A is an X-linked recessive disorder common in European royal family. Alice
the Duchess of Hess, was heterozygous for the Hemophilia A allele and her husband was
not affected by the disorder. Her son Ernest Louis seems like a healthy boy at birth but
this disorder can sometimes not show up until early childhood. What are the chances that
Ernest Louis has the disorder?
a. 3/4
b. 1/2
c. 1/4
d. 1/8
e. 1/1
b. 1/2
f a male has a X-linked dominant allele, what will be true about his daughters?
a. They will be unaffected
b. They will be carriers
c. Half of them will be affected
d. Half of them will be carriers
e. They will all be affected
e. They will all be affected
Crossing over is most likely to occur on chromosomes that:
a. Are close together on different chromosomes
b. Are far apart on different chromosomes
c. Are close together on the same chromosome
d. Are far apart on the same chromosome
d. Are far apart on the same chromosome
n a simplified 3 gene model of the quantitative trait human skin color, where A, B, and C
are dominant alleles coding for skin pigmentation. Which of these individuals will have
the darkest skin color?
a. AaBbCc
b. AABbcc
c. AaBBcc
d. aaBBCc
e. All of the above will have the same skin color
e. All of the above will have the same skin color
Curly hair is a human trait encoded by one gene. When an individual with curly hair
(HH) mates with an individual with straight hair (hh), an individual with wavy hair
results. This is an example of what type of inheritance pattern?
a. Co-dominance
b. Incomplete dominance
c. Gene-by gene interaction
d. Polygenic inheritance
e. Multiple allelism
b. Incomplete dominance
If an individual with wavy hair mated with an individual with straight hair what are the
chances that they would have offspring with curly hair?
a. 0
b. 1/8
c. 1/4
d. 1/2
e. 1/1
a. 0
What type of bond link bases to their opposites on the antiparallel DNA strand?
a. Phosphodiester
b. Hydrogen
c. Covalent
d. Ionic
e. Polar
b. Hydrogen
he bacterial transformation experiments performed by Avery, McCleod, and McCarthy
in 1944 in which they separated classes of molecules and exposed non-virulent bacteria
to virulent molecules demonstrated that:
a. Virulent (disease-causing) strains can survive heat better than non-virulent strains
b. DNA is the hereditary material
c. Bacteria can acquire hereditary information from their environment
d. Bacteria can become antibiotic-resistant
e. Both B and C
e. Both B and C