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True or False: Mitosis creates sperm in males or eggs in females |
False |
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True or False: Flowers are used for asexual reproduction |
False |
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True or False: Charles Darwin was taught Layarckian Evolution while in college |
True |
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True or False: Whales have two nostrils on the top of their head |
True |
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True or False: Transitional Fossils leading to modern horses demonstrate macroevolution |
True |
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True or False: During the industrial revolution, dark moth populations became more common |
True |
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What are linked to the increase in cancer risk |
Tanning beds, Smokeless Tobacco, Viral Infections, being lazy |
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Malignant |
A group of cancerous cells that has invaded 2 or more tissues but not the blood or lymph systems |
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How do chemo drugs like Taxol work to kill cancerous cells? |
The drugs freeze the mitotic spindle in any dividing cell at metaphase |
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Where does meiosis happen? |
In areas that make sex cells |
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In meiosis 1 and 2, what phase do the tetrads separate? |
Anaphase 1 |
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In which stage of Meiosis can crossing over occur? |
Metaphase 1 |
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If Non disjunction occurs during Meiosis 1, how many sperm cells will have the incorrect number of chromosomes? |
2 sperm cells will have the incorrect number of chromosomes |
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Which form of Trisomy is most common in humans |
Trisomy 21 |
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Which is not a version of trisomy 23 |
Turner Syndrome (XO) |
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Hermaphroditism |
Individual organisms have both male and female genitalia |
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In which types of sexual reproduction will you find dieocious individuals? |
Bisexual |
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Who is the father of genetics? |
Mendel |
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What organism did mendel use to discover how heritable factors are passed down to offspring? |
Pea Plants |
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Allele |
Different forms of a gene |
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Phenotype |
The expressed trait for a genotype |
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True or False: The I*a allele is dominant to the I*b allele |
False |
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If someone with type O blood and a person with type AB blood have a child, what blood type could they expect their child to have? |
They will have type A or B blood |
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If a person with Type AB blood and a person with type AB blood have several children, which blood types might their children have |
Type A, B, or AB blood |
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Why does Hh lead to mild disease |
Hh means the person has 1/2 of the normal number of cholesterol receptors |
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Who proposed the first scientific definition of evolution |
Jean Lamarck |
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According to strict creationist, when was the earth created? |
4004 BC |
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Heresy |
Introducing a change that conflicts with previously established beliefs |
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What was the main purpose of the HMS Beagle |
To scout for future sites to set up english colonies in South America |
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Based on Transitional Fossils, what was the ancestor for all marine mammals? |
A wolf like mammal |
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True or False: Darwin befriended Alfred Russel Wallace while studying evolution by natural selection |
False |
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NOT the big book, when were the short papers by Darwin and Wallace published? |
They were published at the same time |
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What happened to the population of reindeer that was established on ST. Matthew Island in 1944 and left when the US Coast Guard departed the island? |
The population exploded and then fell back to carrying capacity |
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True or False: For explanation of evolution by natural selection. Individuals that adapt to the environment will survive and have babies |
False |
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Microevolution |
A change in heritable trait in a population over time |
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Difference between Macroevolution and Macroevolution |
Microevolution is leading to population changes, macro leads to speciation |
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True or False: According to Pope John Paul II, the catholic church accepts the scientific theory of evolution |
True |
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When blood is in the pulmonary artery, is it full of oxygen or low in oxygen? |
Low in oxygen |
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Who played an important role in the discovery of DNA |
Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins |
