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GENETICS & EVOLUTION

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What is characteristic of X-linked disorders?   show
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heterochromatin   show
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euchromatin   show
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show One of the 2 X's in a female will be inactivated as a Barr body  
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show 3  
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Autosomal Dominant   show
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What is fitness defined by?   show
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directional selection   show
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show selects for moderate trait, against extremes  
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disruptive selection   show
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Group selection   show
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show sacrifices fitness of individual for benefit of group  
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Evolutionary success   show
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show -be able to interbreed -be able to produce fertile, viable offspring -does this naturally  
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Are a horse and donkey same species?   show
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Speciation   show
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polymorphism   show
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adaptation   show
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specialization   show
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Inbreeding increases frequency of __ and decreases ___.   show
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Why is inbreeding so bad?   show
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show severe reduction in population size (i.e. natural disaster)  
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genetic drift and when does the effect increase?   show
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T / F: Bottlenecks increase the effect of genetic drift?   show
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divergent evolution   show
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Divergent evolution produces ___ structures.   show
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homologous structures   show
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parallel evolution   show
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convergent evolution   show
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analogous structures   show
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coevolution   show
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show one benefits, other harmed  
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show one benefits, other unaffected  
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show both species benefit  
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ontogeny vs. phylogeny   show
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Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny Theory   show
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Molecular Clock Theory   show
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show random genetic drift mutations that are not acted on by natural selection  
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What is Oparin and Haldane's theory on origin of life?   show
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show Urey-Miller  
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RNA World Hypothesis   show
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protocells   show
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show -endosymbiosis --> big cx engulfed a smaller cx  
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What are 2 types of endosymbiosis?   show
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How did prokaryotes evolve? stages   show
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What is a chordate?   show
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What are features of a chordate?   show
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What is a vertebrate vs. chordate?   show
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show -all chordates have a notochord, dorsally located nerve -all vertebrates have a backbone  
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Are all vertebrates chordates? Are all chordates vertebrates?   show
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show rigid rod present at some stage of development in all chordates  
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show 1  
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Hardy Weinberg equation   show
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show -large population (no genetic drift) -no mutation -no migration -random mating (no sexual selection) -all genes are equally successful at reproducing  
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What is a back-cross?   show
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show Situation when you have a dominant phenotype (Aa or AA) --> cross with homozygous recessive aa  
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show location of a gene on a chromosome  
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show variant of a gene  
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show same locus  
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How many alleles does each gene hold?   show
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leakage   show
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show all of the alleles in a population  
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penetrance   show
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show to what degree a penetrant gene is expressed  
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When does tetrad formation occur?   show
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In meiosis, are the daughter cells identical to parent cell?   show
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What does meiosis produce?   show
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show independent assortment --> sometimes mom's chromo is on left, sometimes it's on rightW  
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The law of_____ ( segregation or independent assortment) is dependent on the separation of members of homologous pairs.   show
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What is the site of crossing-over called? When does chiasma occur?   show
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What lines up during meiosis I? Mitosis?   show
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How many recombinants does a single crossover create?   show
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Where are all of the sex-linked alleles located?   show
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show inheritance of things other than genomic DNA --> all cellular organelles such as mito are inherited from mother  
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mitochondria inheritance is from?   show
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inversion mutation   show
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addition / insertion mutation   show
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What to addition / deletion mutations create?   show
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translocation mutation   show
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inborn errors of metabolism   show
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Are all mutagens carcinogens? Are all carcinogens mutagens?   show
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show increase mitosis  
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show -mutagen = causes mutation -carcinogen = causes mutation that causes cancer  
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show remnants of organs that have lost ancestral fxns  
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show populations  
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show NO --> bilateral symmetry  
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show chordata  
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show produce large number of offspring that mature rapidly with littler or no parental care  
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show small brood size with slow maturing offspring and strong parental care  
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show single ancestral species gives rise to a number of different species  
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What carries out long-term evolutionary changes?   show
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show colloidal droplets made of polypeptides, nucleic acids, polysaccharides --> first cx thought to evolved from this cx type  
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prezygotic isolating mechanisms vs. postzygotic   show
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inclusive fitness   show
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show changing gene frequency  
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How to calculate the number of possible gametes for AaBbCc?   show
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Why does inbreeding reduce fitness?   show
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What organisms fall under eukaryotes?   show
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Which organisms fall under prokaryotes?   show
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What are simplest eukaryotes?   show
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show -more common in males -skip generations -NO father-son transmission  
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show intro of new alleles into a population  
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Gram positive appear ___ after staining. Gram negative appear ____.   show
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Where do sperm undergo maturation? What is that analogous to in a female?   show
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show membrane-bound organelles, chitin wall  
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What is the smallest and achiral a.a.?   show
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What is the imino acid?   show
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What a.a. can form disulfide bonds?   show
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Background extinction vs. mass extinction   show
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Founder effect   show
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show testosterone  
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show avg. amount of time btwn appearances of 2 successive generations (i.e. parent and offspring)  
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show leydig cells --> stimulate testosterone release --> FSH  
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show carbon  
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autotrophic bacteria   show
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show bacteria that derive carbon from organic nutrients like sugar  
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show use sunlight to produce sugars from CO2  
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show mito and chloroplasts  
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Rank severity of damage: nonsense, silent, missense   show
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Where is rRNA produced?   show
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show nucleus  
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How many sets of tumor suppressor genes does each person have?   show
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show sucrose = glucose + fructose  
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show NO  
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show cytoplasm and cx membrane supplies erythrocytes  
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show group of interbreeding individuals of same species isolated from similar groups of same species  
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fundamental niche   show
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show conditions individuals actually use to survive  
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show NO  
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Type A blood makes antibodies against?   show
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When a population undergoes bottleneck, what is genotype of population?   show
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High degree of phenotypic plasticity?   show
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