Unit 3 AP Biology Word Scramble
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Synapsis occurs during ____ but not during ______ | Meiosis, Mitosis | What is indicated when a single-character testcross yields offspring in a 1:1 phenotypic ratio | The parent with the dominant phenotype was heterozygous | What are Linked loci | Loci on the same chromosome | What is the exchange of parts between nonhomologous chromosomes | Translocation |
What is the phenomenon during meiosis, where homologous chromosomes sometimes stick together and do not separate properly | Nondisjunction | Both chloroplasts and mitochondria carry | Extranuclear genes | Y-linked genes are passed from who to who | From father to son | Cells that have more than two complete sets of chromosomes are termed___________. | Polyploid |
What is the normal complement of sex chromosomes in a human male | One X chromosome and one Y chromosome | Who demonstrated that genes are located on chromosomes | Morgan | A harmless variant of S. pneumoniae became pathogenic when mixed with a heat-killed pathogenic variant as a result of _____. | Transformation | The X-ray diffraction studies conducted by ______ were key to the discovery of the structure of DNA | Franklin |
In excision repair of DNA, damaged DNA is excised by _____. | Nuclease | Repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes are called | Telomeres | What is an enzyme made up of a protein and an RNA sequence that serves as a template for telomeric sequence addition | Telomerase | What is a difference between a DNA and an RNA molecule | DNA is double-stranded, whereas RNA is single-stranded |
What is not needed for DNA replication | Ribosome | An old DNA strand is used as a _____ for the assembly of a new DNA strand | Template | The synthesis of a new strand begins with the synthesis of a | RNA primer complementary to a preexisting DNA strand | What are the four bases contained in DNA | Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine |
One strand of a DNA molecule has the base sequence ATAGGT. The complementary base sequence on the other strand of DNA will be _____ | TATCCA | In a eukaryotic cell, what does DNA contain | Sugar Deoxyribose | The DNA structures of prokaryotes and eukaryotes are different in several ways, but one way in which these two DNAs are the same is that _____ | Both have a sugar-phosphate backbone | What is the weakest bonds in DNA | Two nitrogenous bases |
What term describes a rare change in the DNA of a gene ultimately creating genetic diversity | Mutation | The flow of information in a cell proceeds | From DNA to RNA to protein | The order of the nucleotides in the molecule | What process occurs in the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell | Translation | |
A mutagen causes | Change in the base sequence of DNA | A gene is usually _____ | The information for making a polypeptide | How many nucleotides are needed to code for a protein with 450 amino acids | at least 1,350 | Where does transcription take place in a eukaryotic cell | Nucleus |
What catalyzes the linkage between ribonucleotides to form RNA | RNA polymerase | What is a point mutation where a single base pair is inserted or deleted from DNA | Frame-shift mutation | In eukaryotes, which mechanism of gene regulation operates after transcription but before translation of mRNA into protein | RNA splicing and editing | Polysomes may be defined as what | Functional groups of ribosomes |
Why is Ultraviolet (UV) radiation damaging | It causes mutations in the DNA | What are the bonds that hold tRNA molecules in the correct three-dimensional shape | Hydrogen bonds | What does Amino acid activation involve | Attachment to tRNA | The nucleic acid of a virus particle is enclosed in a protein coat known as | Capsid |
What is a virus called that attacks a bacterium | Phage | Describe the general mode of action of a virus | The viral genome takes over the host cell's central dogma machinery | ______ are naked strands of RNA and ______ are infectious protein particles | Viroids and prions | A correct sequence of DNA segments composing an operon is _____. | Promoter, Operator, Enzyme-coding genes |
As a result of the lytic cycle, _____ | the host cells DNA is destroyed | What is the function of reverse transcriptase | Catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template | What is the source of a viral envelope | Host cell membrane | Double-stranded viral DNA is incorporated into a host cell as a _____ | Provirus |
Regulatory proteins bind to _____ | The operator | In the presence of a regulatory protein the lac operon is _____ | Not transcribed | What are viruses called that infect bacteria | Bacteriophages | What term is associated with a viral genome that has been incorporated into a bacterial cell's chromosome | Prophage |
In the lytic life cycle of phages what enters the host cell | Nucleic acid core of the phage | What is a phage that inserts itself into the host DNA called | Lysogenic | What occurs in the lytic cycles of a DNA virus and an RNA retrovirus | Production of DNA | Reverse transcription, carried out by retroviruses, is the process by which _____. | RNA information is copied into DNA |
DNA segments very similar to real genes but which do not yield functional products are called | Pseudogenes | What are Histones | Proteins around which DNA is coiled | What is the difference between tandemly repetitive and interspersed repetitive DNA | Interspersed repetitive DNA is found throughout the genome | What are the simplest bacterial transposons | Insertion sequences |
Why are your muscle and bone cells different | Different genes are switched on and off in each type of cell | DNA methylation is a mechanism used by eukaryotes to _____. | Inactivate genes | Rearrangement of the genome plays an important role in the _____ system | Immune | _____ bind to DNA enhancer regions | Activators |
Enzyme complexes that break down protein are called _____ | Proteasomes | What is the function of a spliceosome | RNA processing | During Interphase, _____ can be seen with a light microscope | Heterochromatin | Segments of eukaryotic DNA that are able to move from one site to another in the genome are called | Transposons |
In plants, the structures that develop from meristems depend on the expression of ______ genes | Organ-identity | What is programmed cell death | Apoptosis | In C. elegans the gene that initiates the cascade that results in apoptosis is the __________ gene | Ced-9 | What is the highly conserved segment of homeotic genes | Homeobox |
Cytoplasmic determinants are coded for by maternal genes | True | Cells influence each other's development by a process known as __________. | Induction | What has the earliest influence on development | Cytoplasmic determinants | Differentiation __________. | Requires the transcription of tissue-specific genes |
Embryonic tissue that persists in the adult plant is called __________ | Meristem | What is Electrophoresis used for | To separate fragments of DNA | What is Southern blotting | A technique used to study RFLPs | What is an enzyme called that makes DNA from an RNA template | Reverse transcriptase |
What is the source of the reverse transcriptase used in recombinant DNA technology | Retroviruses | DNA synthesized using an RNA template is called | cDNA | The so-called sticky ends of a plasmid or bacterial chromosome are ____________ | Unpaired bases produced by a restriction enzyme | Why does bacteria use restriction enzymes | Destroy foreign DNA |
In eukaryotes, the structures consisting of associations of Histones and DNA are called | Nucleosomes | What are the active genes associated with the loosely packed chromatin | Euchromatin | What is the name of the technology for combining genes from different species | Recombinant DNA technology | In what ways are sticky ends and nucleic acid probes alike | They both undergo complementary base pairing |
What can be used to find a particular nucleotide sequence within a mass of DNA | Nucleic acid probe | The term used for the fact that restriction enzymes cut DNA into pieces of different lengths | RFLP | The unpaired nucleotides produced by the action of restriction enzymes are referred to as _____. | Sticky ends | In order to insert a human gene into a plasmid, both must _____ | Be cut by the same restriction enzyme |
What enzyme forms covalent bonds between restriction fragments | DNA Ligase | What is a symptom of vitamin A deficiency | Blindness | Name a vitamin A precursor | Beta-carotene | DNA used in recombinant DNA techniques is first cut into fragments by | Restriction enzymes |
The process by which cells become specialized is called | Diffusion | True or False Haploid cells can divide by meiosis | False | By what process can fetal cells may be removed along with fluid from the womb | Amniocentesis | Which of the following is correct with regard to aneuploidy | It can be represented by 2n + 1 |
A two-stage type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that results in cells with half the chromosome number of the original cell is called | Meiosis | Nuclear division resulting in cells that contain half the parental chromosome number is _____. | Meiosis | A man who has type B blood and a woman who has type A blood could have children of which of the following phenotypes | A, B, AB, or O | The phenomenon where a particular allele can have different effects if it is inherited from a male rather than a female | Genomic imprinting |
What produces offspring genetically identical to the parent | Asexual reproduction | A photograph of all a persons chromosomes is called | Karyotype | What is the gene interaction called when one gene pair will interact to control the expression of a second gene pair | Epistasis | Human mitochondria is inherited from who | Inherited from the mother |
A human somatic cell contains how many chromosomes | 46 | What is the division of one cell into two | Cytokinesis | A woman with type O blood is expecting a child. Her husband is type A. Both the woman's father and her husband's father had type B blood. What is the probability that the child will have type O blood | 50 percent | If two genes are linked _____. | They are on the same chromosome |
What is the diploid stage of a plant that exhibits an alternation of generations | Sporophyte | What is the term for an alternative version of a gene | Allele | The general term for the production of offspring with new combinations of traits inherited from the two parents is | Genetic recombination | What is the term that describes the order of genes on a chromosome based on recombination frequencies | Linkage map |
When does replication of all the chromosomal DNA occur | Before a cell divides | Individuals have different phenotypes because the underlying genotypes contain instructions for different sets of _____ | Polypeptides | The most common phenotype in a natural population is referred to as the _____ | Wild Type | The Y chromosomes of mammals contain genes that code for whatMaleness The Y chromosomes of mammals contain genes that code for whatMaleness | Maleness |
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