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Gillam ch 10-17,28

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ABPOSITIVE What blood type has the most protein antigens in it?
ABSOLUTE Carbon-14 dating is a method of finding the -?- age of fossils less than 60,000 years old.
ACHONDROPLASIA The fancy name for the disorder caused by a dominant gene which results in little people.
ACQUIRED Lamarck believed that evolution was the result of -?- traits being passed on.
ADAPTED Darwin said species changed as they -?- to their environments.
ADENINE Guanine and -?- are both purines.
AGE OF THE WIFE The odds of having a Down syndrome child goes up as the -?- of a man goes up.
ALL Darwin's theory of evolution attributed -?- life on earth to a common ancestor.
ALLELES The various forms of a gene are called -?-
ALLELES All organisms have two -?- for any given gene.
ANALOGOUS -?- structures look the same but evolved from different organs.
ANAPHASE During which phase of mitosis do the sister chromatids get pulled apart?
ANCESTOR Proving that different species have a common -?- proves evolution.
ANCESTORS The theory of evolution includes the idea that fossils represent the -?- of species alive today.
ANSWER Darwin came up with the theory of evolution as an -?- to the many questions raised by his observations.
ARTIFICIAL Darwin noticed that people have been changing species for hundreds of years using -?- selection.
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION Humans have been able to mold species to our liking through hundred of years of -?-
ASEXUAL -?- reproduction is fast, but produces no variation.
AUG What codon codes for methionine?
AUTOSOMES A karyotype shows two sex chromosomes and 44 -?-
AVERY Who discovered that gene were made of DNA in 1944?
BACTERIA The first forms of life on Earth were -?-
BARR BODY Cells in a girl often have a -?- because the cell deactivates one of the X chromosomes and pushes it to the side.
BASES In translation a sequence of -?- becomes a sequence of amino acids.
BEAGLE Darwin took a 3-year voyage on a ship named -?-.
BEHAVIORAL If one type of ant won't mate with another species of ant because it does not smell right, then those two species are using a -?- isolation technique.
BELL The graph of the phenotypes of a polygenic trait will usually be a -?- shaped curve.
BILLIONS Humans have -?- of bases in their DNA.
BLUEPRINT RNA is like a -?- of the parts of the master plan.
BOOK A chromosome is like a -?- in the master plan.
BOOK LUNG Spiders use a -?- for respiration.
BOOK LUNGS Scorpions use -?- for respiration.
BOYS A recessive gene on the X chromosome will be expressed most often in -?-
CAN It is a fact that evolution -?- occur.
CARNIVORES Spiders are -?-, using their silk to make webs and catch prey.
CELLS According to figure 10-1 all snails have the same size -?-
CELLS How naturally created organic chemicals could have formed into living -?- is still a mystery to science.
CENOZOIC The -?- era began about 65 million years ago.
CENTIPEDE A -?- is a carnivorous arthropod with 2 legs per segment.
CENTROMERE The thing in the middle of a chromosome that holds the chromatids together is called a -?-
CEPHALIZATION What is the one thing that all Echinoderms lack?
CEPHALOTHORAX What part of a crayfish is covered by the carapace.
CHARGAFF Who discovered that the amount of C and G are always the same in samples of DNA?
CHEMICALS The Miller and Urey experiments showed how some organic -?- could be made by natural processes.
CHROMATID Each half of a chromosome is called a -?-
CHROMATIN DNA that is not bundled up is called -?-
CHROMOSOME DNA that is copied and bundled is called a -?-
CHROMOSOME A -?- is a highly coiled DNA molecule visible only during cell division.
CHROMOSOMES True independent assortment rarely happens because the genes for traits are bundle together on -?-
CHROMOSOMES Humans have 46 -?-
CLONE An identical twin born to a different mother at a different time would be a -?-
CLOSE TOGETHER If the recombination frequency is low (don't recombine much) then the genes must be -?- on the chromosome.
CODOMINANT If a bear looks gray because it has white hairs and black hairs then the black and white genes must be -?-
CODOMINANT Since people who are heterozygous for the sickle cell anemia gene have both round and crescent shaped cells, the normal and the sickle cell gene must be -?-
COLEOPTERA What is the name of the insect order with the most species?
COMPETE Overproduction causes the offspring to -?- for the limited resources.
COMPOUND Insects have -?- eyes.
CONTACT -?- inhibition cause normal cells to stop growing when they become crowded by neighboring cells.
CONVERGENT Different species in similar environments will likely undergo -?- evolution.
CORE The -?- of a virus is made of DNA
CROSSING OVER The process of -?- allow for novel combinations of genes to be created from a limited pool of chromosomes.
CUAAUGU What would GATTACA be transcribed into?
CYCLINS What are the newly discovered chemicals called that have a controlling influence over the cell cycle?
CYSTIC FIBROSIS Approximately 1 out of 30 people is a carrier for the gene that causes -?-
CYTOKINESIS The final part of the cell cycle when the cell becomes two cells is called -?-
CYTOSINE What is the complimentary base that goes with guanine in a DNA molecule?
DEOXYRIBOSE What is the name of the sugar in DNA?
DIFFERENT Meiosis produces new cells that are genetically -?- from each other and the cell they came from.
DIFFERENTIATION The specialization of cells into different tissues is know as -?-
DINOSAURS There were a lot of -?- during the Mesozoic era.
DIRECTIONAL -?- selection will cause the average of a polygenic trait to shift either higher or lower.
DISASTERS Natural -?- can cause evolution, even in the absence of natural selection.
DISRUPTIVE -?- selection will not change the average of a polygenic trait, but it will reduce the number of individuals that have the average.
DNA One reason really big cells cannot exist is that the -?- can only control so much.
DNA What was transforming the nice bacteria into killer in Griffith's experiments?
DNA Lamarck did not realize that the only thing a parent passes on to its offspring is -?-
DNA FINGERPRINT A -?- is produced by analyzing the junk DNA between the genes.
DNA POLYMERASE What enzyme reads/copies the DNA molecule during replication.
DOMINANCE Mendel believed the F1 generations of hybrids were all the same was due to the -?- of certain traits.
EARTH Darwin figured that if the -?- could change as Hutton and Lyell suggested, them maybe life could change.
EIGHT How many different blood types are there?
ELECTRICITY In order to get an egg to accept the replacement DNA scientist use -?- to encourage the cell to fuse and begin mitosis.
EMBRYO The only real difference between a clone and any other individual is the way the -?- was made.
EMBRYOS Where do human stems cells come from? TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
EMBRYOS The similarities in -?- of different species can be explained by the theory of evolution.
ENDOSYMBIOTIC The -?- theory says that the organelles of the first eukaryotic cells were actually bacteria living symbiotically within other bacteria.
ENVIRONMENT During natural selection it is the -?- that determines which organisms will survive.
ENVIRONMENTAL Many traits are the results of an interaction between genetic factors and -?- factors.
ENVIRONMENTS Species on different continents look similar because they have been evolving in similar -?-.
EQUILIBRIUM If a population is not evolving then it must be in a state of genetic -?-
EVOLUTION Today -?- is defined as a change in the frequency of the alleles in a population.
EXONS What do we call the parts of the DNA that actually code for proteins?
EXOSKELETON Arthropods have an -?- made of chitin.
EXTERNAL Echinoderms use -?- reproduction, and the parents never meet each other.
FALSE In Griffith's experiments a mixture of nice and killer bacteria would probably not harm the mice. truth or false
FANGS The chelicerae of spiders are basically -?-
FAR APART If the recombination frequency is high then the genes must be -?- on the chromosome.
FERTILIZATION During -?- the DNA of two cells is joined into one.
FISH There were a lot of -?- during the Paleozoic era.
FITTEST Natural selection only lets the -?- survive.
FLEX Bugs have muscles that extend and -?- joints.
FOSSIL The most compelling evidence that evolution has occurred is the -?- record.
FOSSILS Darwin collected -?- and samples of the living species during his voyage.
FOUR The crustaceans usually have -?- antennae.
FRAME A deletion of a base in DNA results in a -?- shift mutation that will affect many amino acids.
FRANKLIN Who took the x-ray photos of DNA that helped Watson and Crick figure out the structure of DNA?
FREQUENCY The relative -?- of an allele gives its percentage of the gene pool for that trait.
GALAPAGOS Darwin noticed that the climate of the different -?- islands varied along with the species that lived on them.
GATTACA If one side of a DNA molecule had CTAATGT on it, what would the other side have on it?
GELELECTROPHORESIS -?- is used to make DNA fingerprints and to separate DNA pieces based on their sizes.
GENE The modern definition of a -?-, is a section of DNA that controls a particular trait.
GENE What do we call a section of DNA that codes for a protein?
GENERATIONS It takes many -?- for evolution to occur.
GENES Differentiation is accomplished in humans by the control of the expression of -?-
GENETIC DNA stores and transmits -?- information.
GENETICDRIFT -?- is evolution caused by accident rather than natural selection.
GEOGRAPHIC The -?- distribution of species can be explained by the fact that species on different continents descended from different ancestors.
GEOGRAPHICAL If one species does not mate with another species because a river separates them, then that is a -?- isolation technique.
GILLS Crustaceans use -?- for respiration.
GIRLS A dominant gene on the X chromosome will be expressed most often in -?-
GLUTAMINE What amino acid would be coded for by CAG on the RNA molecule?
GRADUALISM Darwin believed in a slow and steady evolution know today as -?-
GRAY What color would the feathers be of a heterozygous bird be if they carry a black gene that has incomplete dominance over the white gene it carries?
GREEN GLANDS What crayfish organ lies in the head near the brain?
HEREDITY Genetic scientists study -?-, and try to understand how traits get passed on to offspring.
HETEROZYGOUS A genotype with two different alleles (such as in most hybrids) is said to be -?-
HGP What government sponsored project was completed in the year 2000. (acronym)
HIMALAYAN According to figure 11-12, what color coat is recessive to all other colors accept albino?
HISTIDINE What amino acid would GTA on the DNA eventually result in after transcription and translation?
HISTONES What are the protein molecules called that help DNA bundle in Eukaryotic cells?
HOMOLOGOUS -?- structures look different but evolved from the same organs.
HOMOZYGOUS A genotype with two identical alleles is said to be -?-
HUTTON What geologist who wrote a book in 1795 about how geological forces have shaped the Earth?
HYBRIDIZATION -?- can produce new types of plants with traits that represent the best of both worlds.
HYBRIDS If the male P-generation and the female P-generations were different, then the offspring would be -?-
IDENTICAL Mitosis produces new cells that are genetically -?- to each other and the cell they came from.
ILLEGAL It is possible but -?- to clone humans today.
INBREEDING Although -?- can cause problem, it does maintain the desired characteristics in the offspring.
INCOMPLETE The fossil record provides an -?- history of life on Earth.
INDIVIDUALS There are always twice as many alleles as there are -?- in the population.
INSERTIONS Substitutions, deletions, and -?- are all examples of point mutations.
INTERPHASE According to figure 10-4 the cell cycle can be divided up into two main segments: cell division and -?-
INTRON Usually a mutation of an -?- will not harm a person.
INTRONS What do we call the parts of the DNA that don't say anything?
JOINTED All arthropods have -?- appendages.
KARYOTYPE A picture of your chromosomes during mitosis.
KIDNEYS The malpighian tubules of insects have the same function as human -?-
LARGE INTESTINE If we ANALYZE DATA we find that the cells of the -?- take about 6 days to complete a life cycle.
LARVA The immature form of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis is called a -?-
LAVA A one point the entire Earth was one big ball of -?-
LAY EGGS The job of a queen insect is to -?-
LETHAL Having an extra chromosome is usually a -?- condition.
LIVE A person can -?- without a Y chromosome, but not without an X chromosome.
MALARIA The good thing about having half your blood cells sickle shaped is that you are less likely to get -?-
MALE The anterior pair of swimmerets are enlarged in the -?- crayfish.
MAMMALS There were a few small -?- alive during the Mesozoic era.
MAN During artificial selection, it is -?- that decides who will live and die.
MANDIBLES Crustaceans usually have mouth parts called -?-.
MARKERS It is important to place -?- on the DNA of transformed organism so that we can tell them apart from the natural species.
MATES Most non-social insects communicate in order to find -?-
MEIOSIS What process turns one normal diploid body cell into 4 haploid sex cells.
MENDEL Who was the "father" of genetics?
MESOZOIC The -?- era had a mass extinctions before and after it.
METAPHASE During which stage of mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the middle of the cell?
METEORITE The evidence suggest that it was a -?- that caused the mass extinctions.
MILLIONS Hutton said that it took -?- of years for the Earth's features to form.
MILLIPEDE A -?- is a detritivore, with 4 legs per segment.
MISSING LINKS -?- are used by creationists as proof that the fossil record does not show evolution.
MITOSIS What process creates new skin cells to replace old ones?
MOLTING During -?- an insects sheds its old exoskeleton.
MRNA What nucleic acid tells the ribosome which amino acid comes next?
MUTATION What do we call a change in the base sequence in the DNA?
MUTATIONS Though out history it has been the introduction of random -?- that has provided the source of useful and novel characteristics along with genetic disorders.
MUTATIONS -?- are a source of variation in an asexually reproducing population.
NATURAL -?- selection can be stabilizing, disruptive, or directional.
NERVES Knowing how to control the cell cycle could lead to a cure to cancer and treatments to repair damaged -?-
NICE In Griffith's experiments the bacteria that formed into rough colonies were the -?- bacteria.
NONDISJUNCTION Down syndrome is most often the result of -?- that occurs during the formation of an egg cell.
NONE What animals did Mendel do genetic experiments on?
NUCLEOTIDES What are the monomers used to make DNA?
NUCLEUS Prokaryotic cells do not have a -?- to hold their single strand of DNA
NYMPH The immature form of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis is called a -?-
O NEGATIVE What blood type can give to all other types?
ONE HUNDRED If big toes is dominant, and little toes is recessive, what is the probability of getting a heterozygous kid when a homozygous big toed person is crossed with a homozygous little toed person?
OPEN Arthropods have an -?- circulatory system.
OPERATOR In bacteria gene expression can be controlled when repressor proteins knot the DNA by attaching to the -?- site on the DNA strand.
OPERONS Humans do not have -?-, so our cells can access each gene individually.
ORGAN Someday soon we may have transgenic pigs that can act as -?- donors for humans.
OVER PRODUCTION Malthus helped Darwin realize that all species have the capacity for -?-.
OXYGEN There was no -?- in the early Earth's atmosphere.
PAGE A gene is like a -?- in the master plan.
PAIRS Humans have 23 -?- of chromosomes in each cell.
PAIRS Humans have 23 chromosome -?-
PALEONTOLOGISTS -?- are scientists that collect and study fossils.
PALEOZOIC The -?- era did not follow a mass extinction.
PEDIGREE CHARTS Today the use of DNA analysis has largely replaced the use of -?- to determine an individuals genotype.
PERIODS The Eras of the Geologic time scale are divided up into -?-
PHENOTYPE The colors in a pedigree chart represent the -?- of the individuals.
PHENYLALANINE What amino acid would AAA on the DNA eventually result in after transcription and translation?
PHOSPHATE What molecular group sits between the sugars in a DNA molecule?
PKU What is a recessive autosomal disease that all babies are checked for immediately after birth?
PLATE In plants cells cytokinesis is performed by the construction of a cell -?- across the middle of the cell.
PNEUMONIA What disease did Griffith inject into mice?
POINT A mutation that affects just one base is called a -?- mutation.
POLAR BODIES Meiosis in females results in one egg and 3 -?-
POLLINATION Many foods we eat depend on -?- by insects.
POLYGENIC I.Q. is determined by the interaction of many genes working together, in other words I.Q. is a -?- trait.
POLYGENIC -?- traits cannot by crossed using a Punnett square.
POLYPEPTIDE According to figure 12-18 , what is another name for a protein, or chain of amino acids.
POLYPLOIDY A condition where a plant has an entire extra set of chromosomes.
POOL The gene -?- consists of all the alleles in a population.
POPULATION A -?- is a group of the same species that interbreed.
POPULATIONS -?- evolve, not individuals.
PRECAMBRIAN -?- was the first and longest period of time in the geologic time scale.
PROBABILITY Punnett squares are used to predict the -?- of genotypes and phenotypes in the offspring of a cross.
PROLINE What amino acid would GGG on the DNA eventually result in after transcription and translation?
PROPHASE What is the first step of mitosis?
PROTEIN What is the outside of a virus made of?
PROTEINS Bad DNA creates bad -?- that create bad traits.
PUNCTUATED The fossil record matches better with a -?- equilibrium pattern of evolution.
RADIATION Chemicals, viruses, and -?- can all cause mutation.
RANDOM Since all naturally occurring mutations are -?-, it is very rare for it to be beneficial.
RANDOM If evolution is to be stopped then the matings must be -?-
READ After completing the HGP people were heard to say, now that we have the book we need to how to -?- it.
RECESSIVE -?- genes will usually not affect the phenotype unless they are present in a double dose in the individual.
RECESSIVE Lethal genetic disorders are usually -?-, otherwise they would never get passed on to the next generation.
RECOMBINANT -?- DNA technology has allowed us to create glowing mice.
RECOMBINATION Crossing over is also know as -?-, the frequency of which can be measured as an indication of how close genes are on a chromosome.
REFLEXES Since Echinoderms do not have a brain it is assumed that there responses to stimuli are guided by -?-
RELATED DNA is now being used to prove that species are -?-
RELATIVE -?- dating of fossils tells us which came first and which came last, but not how old they are.
REPRODUCE By definition, the most fit organisms are the ones that -?- most.
REPRODUCTIVE Meiosis occurs only in the -?- organs of a birds body.
REPRODUCTIVELY In order for speciation to occur, a population must be split into two -?- isolated groups.
RESTRICTION -?- enzymes are able to cut DNA at specific base sequences.
RIBOSE What is the name of the sugar in RNA?
RIBOSOME Where is the mRNA translated?
RNA What solves the problem of having the instructions for proteins being in one spot, and the construction site in another.
RNABASES Transcription changes a sequence of DNA bases into a sequence of -?-.
RNA POLYMERASE What enzyme transcribes DNA into RNA.
RRNA What type of nucleic acid is a ribosome made of?
SALT A "spiky" looking red blood cell was probably placed in -?- water. salt or pure
SCORPION A -?- is a carnivorous arachnid with pincers and a poison barb at the end of its abdomen.
SEDIMENTARY Most fossils are found in -?- rocks.
SEGMENTED Arthropods have a -?- body.
SEGREGATION During -?- a "coin" is flipped to see which allele a person is carrying will be give to the gamete they are producing.
SEVEN The time-line on pg 292 is misleading because 1960 to 1977 (17 years) is 3 cm , but 1951 to 1953 (2 years) is about -?- cm.
SEXLINKED -?- genes are usually on the X chromosome, and cause disorders that are expressed much more often in males.
SEXUAL Most variation in a population is the result of -?- reproduction.
SIMILARITIES Much of the evidence for evolution comes from the fact that the many -?- among the different species suggest a common ancestry.
SINGLE Unlike DNA, RNA is a -?- strand.
SMALL It is impossible to stop a very -?- population from evolving.
SMOOTH In Griffith's experiments the colonies of killer bacteria looked -?-
SPECIALIZATION It is -?- and division of labor that allows insect societies to do so much.
SPECIATION -?- occurs during adaptive radiation.
SPECIES Darwin wondered so many different -?- existed.
SPERM The gender of the offspring is determined by which sex chromosome the -?- was carrying.
SPINY The echinoderms are characterized by their -?- skin.
SPIRACLES The air exits an insect's tracheal tubes through holes called -?-.
SPREAD DISEASE The insects that cause the most harm to humans are the ones that -?-
SQUARE In a pedigree chart a male is represented by a -?-
STABILIZING -?- selection will make the bell shaped curve of phenotypes taller with steeper sides.
STOP Natural selection will -?- evolution when the species is perfect.
SUBSTITUTION What type of mutation will only affect one amino acid in the resultant protein?
SURFACE One reason really big cells cannot exist is that as the cell gets the bigger the -?- to volume ratio goes down.
TELOPHASE What is the last step of mitosis?
TEMPORAL -?- isolation keeps plants that bloom in the spring from mating with plants that bloom in the fall.
TERRESTRIAL -?- arthropods must use a form of internal fertilization, or else the gametes would dehydrate and die.
TETRADS During meiosis -?- form as 2 homologous chromosomes (4 chromatids) line up together in the middle of the cell.
THEORY It is a -?- that evolution has created all the different species that exist on Earth today.
THERAPY Gene -?- attempts to cure genetic disorders by inserting good DNA into cells of the patient.
THORAX The legs of an insect are attached to the -?-
THOUSAND Prior to the books by Lyell and Hutton, everyone assumed the Earth was just a few -?- years old.
THOUSANDS Humans have -?- of genes.
THOUSANDS There are -?- of genes on your DNA.
THREE How many bases make a codon?
THREE Insects have -?- body segments.
TICK A -?- is basically a parasitic arachnid.
TIME Darwin used the evidence provided by Hutton and Lyell to show that there was lots of -?- for evolution to occur.
TODAY Lyell wrote a book about geology where he suggested that the past must be explained by what we see happening -?-
TRACERS What are the radioactive atoms called that scientists can detect with instruments.
TRAITS Many of your -?- caused by your genes can not bee seen.
TRANSFERRNA The anticodons are on the -?-.
TRANSFORMATION Bacteria cells suck up DNA from their surroundings in a process know as -?-
TRANSGENIC Most of the cloned organism have been rare -?- organism made with recombinant DNA technology.
TRILOBITES Arthropods have evolved from -?-.
TRNA What type of nucleic acid brings amino acids to the ribosomes?
TRUTH The bacteria became radioactive after the virus with tracers on its DNA infected it. truth or false
TUBEFEET Star fish respirate, urinate, and locomate with their -?-.
TWENTY THREE A normal human egg has -?- chromosomes.
TWO Spiders have -?- body sections.
UNBRANCHED The appendages of the uniramians are -?-.
UNZIP The first step in replication of DNA is to -?- the DNA molecule.
URACIL Unlike DNA, RNA has a -?- base.
VARIATION Artificial selection works due to the natural -?- that exists in all species.
VENTRAL Bugs have a brain connected to a -?- nerve cord.
VESTIGIAL Evolution can explain the presence of -?- organs such as the human appendix and wisdom teeth.
VIRUS A bacteriophage is a -?-
WALLACE It was an article by -?- which contained many ideas identical to Darwin's, that finally forced Darwin to publish "On the Origin of Species".
WAX Humans get such useful items as silk, -?- and honey from insects.
WEATHER The different Galapagos islands had a variety of -?- patterns.
ZERO If big toes is dominant, and little toes is recessive, what is the probability of getting a little toed kid when a homozygous big toed person is crossed with a homozygous little toed person?
ZERO Spiders have -?- antenna.
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