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1
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What is kenetacore microtubules

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The small arms attached to the centromere and the spindle

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The primary structural components of the cell membrane are?

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Phosopholipids and proteins

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The movement of the hydrophobic gas nitrous oxide(N2O) into a cell is an example of which type of movement?

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Simple diffusion through the lipid bilayer

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Which of the following would not simply diffuse through the lipid bilayer of plasma membrane?

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An amino acid

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Which of the statements about diffusion is correct?

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It is a passive process in which molecules move from region of higher concentration to region of lower concentration

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Mammalian blood cells contain the equivalent of .15M NaCl. Seawater contains the equivalent of .45M NaCl. What will happen if red blood cells are transferred to seawater?

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Water will leave the cells, causing them to shrivel and collapse

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The Na+/K+ pump moves_____out of the cell and ______inside the cell. This is movement is _______

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3 Na+, 2 K+, powered by the hydrolysis of ATP

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Eicosanoids are small,hydrophobic signaling molecules. Type of receptor would an eicosanoid most likely bind with?

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Intracellular receptors

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Which of the following signaling molecules would not be able to be used in direct signaling

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Small sugars

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Which of the following steps of the signaling pathway includes the use of second messangers

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Transduction

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If a cell has too little of response to signal what can it do to increase its response

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Increase the number of receptors for that signal

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What is the last step of a cell signaling cascade

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Termination

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At puberty an adolescent female body changes in both structure and function of several organ systems, primarily under the influence of changing concentrations of estrogens and other steroid hormones. How can one hormone, such as estrogen, meditate so many effects

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Estrogen binds to specific receptors inside many kinds of cells, each of which has different responses to its binding

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You wake up in the morning and your hair is very messy, this is an example of

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The second law of thermodynamics

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Which of the following is true for all exergonic reactions

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The reaction proceeds with a net release of free energy

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16
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A chemical reaction that has a positive triangleG is best described as

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Endergonic

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17
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Which is the family that humans belong to

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Hominidae

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18
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For the linnaean classification system (binomial nomenclature) which of the following groups includes the most living things

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Domain

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A controlled experiment is one in which

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There are at least two groups one of which does not receive the experimental treatment

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You are on the top of a very high mountain and observe a thing that is highly ordered affects the health of many of the local animals and is made of very made from a very complex protein coat surrounding DNA. what do you taxonomically classify this thing as

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Not living

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21
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Which of the following is not one of Darwin’s essential observations for evolution by natural selection

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Individuals must be able to pass on traits they have acquired during their lifetimes

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22
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What is the last step in the scientific method

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Modify using what you learned and start the process over again

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23
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Which of the following is true of enzymes

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Enzymes increase the rate of chemical reaction by lowering activation energy barriers

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24
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Which of the following is an example of an anabolic reaction

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10 G3P -> Ru BP

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Magnesium ions are essential for enzymes involved in DNA replication replication how is mg 2 + being used by these enzymes

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Cofactor necessary for enzyme activity

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26
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Complexes 1 through 5 of the electron transport chain are associated with what membrane

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Inner mitochondrial membrane

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27
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What is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain of the mitochondria

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O2

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28
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Why would a cell capable of aerobic respiration undergo fermentation

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The cell does not have enough O2 for its metabolic demands and also may not have mitochondria

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29
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When a molecule of FAD gains two hydrogen atoms than FAD molecule has become

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Reduced

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30
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Which enzyme complex allows chemiosmosis to donate the energy to pay for oxidative phosphorylation

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Complex 5

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31
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Which of the following chemicals should not be used for producing energy for aerobic respiration because its catabolism create a toxic substance

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Proteins

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32
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What is the net amount of ATP that can be made by any process if a cell is starting with one pyruvate

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15

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33
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Which of the following indicates a primary path by which electrons travel downhill energetically during aerobic respiration

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Glucose —NADH —–electron transport chain—– oxygen

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34
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Substrate level phosphorylation accounts for approximately what percentage of the ATP that is directly formed by the reactions of glycolysis

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100%

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35
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In glycolysis for each molecule of glucose oxidized to pyruvate

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Two molecules of ATP are used and four molecules of ATP are produced

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36
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How many carbon atoms are given to the citric acid cycle as a result of the oxidation one molecule of pyruvate

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2

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37
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Which of the following produces the most CO2

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Citric acid cycle

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38
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In the complete reactions of aerobic respiration the energy for the majority of ATP synthesis is provided by

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A proton gradient across a membrane

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39
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What is the most abundant enzyme in our biosphere

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Rubisco

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40
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What are the products of the light reactions of photosynthesis

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ATP and NADPH

41
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Which wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum has the highest energy

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200 nm

42
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Where do plants get the ATP necessary to build a large lipid from 10 G3P molecules

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From the mitochondria

43
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Which of the following is an example of inductive reasoning

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A polar bear has claws a grizzly bear has claws a brown bear has claws there for all bears must have claws

44
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Living things are divided into three different domains which of these domains are not classified as prokaryotes

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Bacteria and archaea

45
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All of living organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem are known as

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A biological community

46
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The primary source of energy for producers in an ecosystem is

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Light energy

47
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of all cells

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Lysosomes

48
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You have two beakers one contains pure water the other contains pure methanol the covalent bonds of methanol molecules are nonpolar so there are no hydrogen bonds among the methanol molecules you pour crystals of table salt into each Beaker predict what will happen

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NaCl crystals will dissolve readily in water but will not dissolve in methanol

49
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About 20 through 25% of 92 natural elements are known to be essential to life which four of these elements make up approximately 96% of living matter

A

Carbon hydrogen nitrogen oxygen

50
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A dietary calorie equals 1 kilocalorie which of the following statements correctly to find one kilocalorie

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1000 calories or the amount of heat required to raise the temperature one kg of Water by 1 cm

51
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Sulfur is in the same column of the Periodic Table of oxygen but has electronegativity similar to carbon compared to water molecules molecules of H2S will

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Not form hydrogen bonds with each other

52
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The slight negative charge at one end of one water molecule is attracted to the slight positive charge of another water molecule what is this attraction called

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A hydrogen bond

53
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Which of the following are the strongest molecular interactions

A

Double covalent bonds

54
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The most stable interaction between magnesium and chlorine forms

A

MgCl2 in which atoms are joined by ionic bonds

55
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If two neutrons in c14 radioactively Decay what will be the resulting atom

A

An isotope of oxygen

56
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Which type of reaction would be used to build a protein from amino acids

A

Dehydration

57
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Which of the following is not a carbohydrate

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Carotenoid

58
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Which of the following describes a hydrolysis reaction

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Amylose broken down into alpha glucose monomers

59
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When two carbon atoms are joined by a double bond how many electron pairs are shared between

A

2

60
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Which of the following are hydrophilic

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Organic molecules with hydroxyl groups

61
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Comparison of samples from the liver of an alcoholic with samples of from a liver of non-drinker when examined by transmission electron microscopy wouldn’t reveal that

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The liver of the alcoholic has a lot more smooth ER compared to the liver of a non-drinkers liver

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The volume enclosed by the plasma membrane of a plant cell is often much larger than the corresponding volume in animal cells the most reasonable explanation for this observation is that

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Plant cells contain a large vacuole that reduces the volume of the cytoplasm

63
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Large numbers of ribosomes are present in cells that specialize in producing which of the following molecules

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Proteins

64
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Ions can travel directly from the cytoplasm of one animal cell to the cytoplasm of an adjacent cell through which cell structure

A

Gap Junctions

65
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You separate an organelle from a cell and find that it has two membranes cellular DNA inside of it can make a lot of ATP what is this organelle

A

Mitochondria

66
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Hydraulic enzymes must be separated from the rest of the cell to prevent General destruction of the cellular components. In animal cells which of the following organelles contains these hydrolytic enzymes

A

Lysosomes

67
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Which animal cell organelles makes specfic fats and contains enzymes that transfer hydrogen from various substrates to oxygen

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Peroxisome

68
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Cam plants keep stomata closed in daytime thus reducing loss of water they can do this because they

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Fix CO2 into organic acids during the night when the temperatures are cooler

69
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What is produced if a cell completes mitosis but does not undergo cytokinesis

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One cell with two nuclei each identical to the nucleus of the parent cell

70
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Humans produce skin cells by mitosis and gametes by meiosis the nuclei of a cell produced by mitosis will have

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Twice as much DNA as the nuclei of gametes produced by meiosis

71
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In which phase of mitosis would karyotyping occur

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Metaphase

72
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If a healthy animal cell had a diploid number of 100 how many single chromosomes would be present in G2

A

0

73
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Which of the following types of cells would be produced by meiosis

A

A haploid animal cell

74
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In humans during the formation of sperm how many tetrads will be lined up during metaphase 1 of meiosis

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23

75
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During which phase of the cell cycle would sister chromatids separate

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anaphase and anaphase 2

76
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If you have a diploid cell whose haploid number is 50 how many sister chromatids will be present at the end of G2

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200

77
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Umpa’s can have red blue or purple hair purple hair is the incomplete dominance condition Orville oompah has purple hair and is married to opal in for who brags that she has the bluest hair in the valley what is the probability that their children will have blue hair too

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50%

78
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Daffodils are either yellow or white tall or short yellow and Tall or dominant dorlene is a yellow call daffodil she mates with Dimitri who is short and white one fourth of their kids are yellow and Tall 1/4 are yellow and short 1/4 are white and Tall 1/4 or white in short what is doreen’s genotype

A

YyTt

79
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When Crossing an organism that is homozygous recessive for a single trait with heterozygous what is the chance of producing an offspring that is homozygous recessive phenotype

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50%

80
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In peas purple flowers are dominant to white flowers with heterozygous plant is crossed with a homozygous purple flowered plant what is the probability that The Offspring will have white flowers

A

0

81
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What is the probability of a person having three babies two girls and a boy assume no possibility of multiple births

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3/8

82
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You have two genes that are linked and do you know this because you do the cross and calculate the frequency of recombination between these two genes is 17% how many map units separate these to

A

17 mu

83
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If you cross a true-breeding black mouse and a true breed White Mouse all the F1 generation are gray what is this an example of

A

Incomplete dominance

84
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Hydrangea plants of the same Jane genotype are planted in a large flower garden some of the plants produce blue flowers others produce pink flowers this can be explained by which of the following statements

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Environmental factors such as soil pH affect phenotype

85
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Linkage violates which of Mendel’s Principles

A

Principle of independent assortment

86
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Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs pancreas digestive system and other organs resulting in symptoms ranging from breathing difficulties to recurrent infections which of the following terms best describes this expression of phenotypes

A

Pleiotropy

87
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If a person has Type O blood what could his or her parents genotypes be

A

All of them except Ia Ib

88
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Red-green color blindness is a sex-linked recessive trait in humans two people with normal color vision have a color-blind son what are the genotypes of the parents

A

XNXn and XNY

89
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a serious condition the patients have muscles that weaken over time because they have absent or decreased dystrophic in a muscle protein if a man without muscular dystrophy has children with a woman that is a carrier for muscular dystrophy what is the probability that their girls will be carriers

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50%

90
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Males are more often affected by sex-linked traits than females because

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Males are hemizygous for the X chromosome

91
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During which phase of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur

A

S

92
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During the phase of the cell cycle can transcription usually not occur

A

M

93
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Which scientist used radioactive sulfur and phosphorus to show that the genetic material of T2 bacteriophages was DNA

A

Hershey and chase

94
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And his transformation experiments what did Griffith observe

A

Mixing a heat killed pathogenic strain of bacteria with a living non-pathogenic strain can convert some of the living cells into the pathogenic form

95
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Which enzyme catalyzed the elongation of DNA strand in the 5’—>3’ direction

A

DNA polymerase

96
Q

What is the function of a topoisomerase/gyrase

A

Relieving strain in the DNA ahead of the replication fork by unwinding the DNA helix

97
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In which order do the necessary enzymes of nucleotide excision repair at to repair damaged to the DNA

A

Nuclease, DNA polymerase, DNA ligase

98
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The leading and the lagging strands of DNA formed during DNA replication differ in that

A

The leading strand is synthesized in the opposite direction

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