Section 2-People (besides Mendel)

Question 0

Who reasoned that the greater distance between two linked genes, the greater the likelihood that crossing over will occur between the two genes?

Answer 0

Alfred H. Sturtevant

Question 1

Who was the founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection?

Answer 1

Charles Darwin

Question 2

Who would have agreed that children inherit some traits from their father and others from their mother, and that these traits are mixed and “blended” in the offspring?

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

What was the name of the 14 year-old kid diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia? At what age did he die?

Answer 3

J.D.–died before the age of 30

Question 4

Which scientist studied the patterns of agglutination?

Answer 4

Karl Landsteiner

Question 4

Which scientists are credited with being the first to describe gene linkage, but whose experiments did not conclusively prove this link?

Answer 4

Bateson, Saunders, and Punnet

Question 5

After results of their dihybrid cross experiments showed that the F1 generation did not follow Mendel’s ratio, which three scientists hypothesized that there may be a connection between certain genes, naming these linked genes?

Answer 5

William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders, and Reginald Punnett

Question 6

Which Dutch botanist and geneticist launched a plant-breeding program studying the role of mutation in evolution and came up with the same results as Mendel?

Answer 6

Hugo de Vries

Question 6

Who used vast amounts of recombination data from different crosses to predict the relative position of genes on each chromosome and produced the first chromosome map?

Answer 6

Alfred H. Sturtevant

Question 7

Which scientist described the first disease linked to genes– a condition called alkaptonuria?

Answer 7

Archibald Edward Garrod

Question 8

Which scientist discovered the first disease linked genes in 1902?

Answer 8

Archibald Edward Garrod

Question 9

Who identified a condition called alkaptonuria (black urine disease)?

Answer 9

Archibald Edward Garrod

Question 10

Who was Thomas Morgan’s student?

Answer 10

Alfred H. Sturtevant

Question 11

Which scientist published a paper in January of 1900, referencing Mendel’s law of segregation and law of independent assortment?

Answer 11

Carl Erich Correns

Question 11

Whose goal was to see if organisms subjected to large-scale mutation induced by X-rays, temperature, and chemicals would change into a new species?

Answer 11

Thomas Morgan

Question 13

The ABO blood typing system was discovered by who?

Answer 13

Karl Landsteiner

Question 14

Who identified more than two dozen mutants and for this work was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933?

Answer 14

Thomas Morgan

Question 15

In 1943, actress Joan Berry accused _____ of being the father of her child, and whose court case spurred the passage of new laws launching a new era in forensic evidence?

Answer 15

actor Charlie Chaplin

Question 16

Who discovered Mendel’s paper several decades after his(Mendel’s) death and acknowledged him in his own publication in 1900?

Answer 16

Hugo de Vries

Question 18

Which scientist was searching for the role of extra-chromosomal factors in phenotype determination?

Answer 18

Carl Erich Correns

Question 20

Which two scientists worked together to introduce the concept that genes are arranged in a linear fashion on chromosomes?

Answer 20

Alfred H. Sturtevant and Thomas Morgan

Question 20

The first description of red-green colorblindness was made in 1794 by _______.

Answer 20

John Dalton

Question 22

Which scientist who was both critical of Mendel’s law of inheritance and Darwin’s concept of natural selection, set out to breed common fruit flies?

Answer 22

Thomas Morgan

Question 24

Which scientists grandfather had taught Mendel botany while he studied in Vienna?

Answer 24

Erich Von Tschermak-Seysenegg’s grandfather

Question 25

Who was the first to link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome, in his/her case the sex chromosome?

Answer 25

Thomas Morgan

Question 26

Which scientist confirmed Mendel’s 3:1 ratio in his plant breeding experiments?

Answer 26

Erich Von Tschermak-Seysenegg

Question 27

Which scientist described the genetic nature of a disease as an “inborn error of metabolism”?

Answer 27

Archibald Edward Garrod

Question 28

Which scientist studied the genetics of sweet peas and was an enthusiastic proponent of Mendelian genetics?

Answer 28

William Bateson

Question 29

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930 for their discovery of the first blood group system?

Answer 29

Karl Landsteiner

Question 30

Which scientist is responsible for developing the tool used to predict the probability of a possible genotype for the offspring?

Answer 30

Reginald Punnett