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Chapter 7
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Undergraduate 2
10/15/2017

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Which of the following statement is most accurate?
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DNA makes RNA, which makes protein
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What is inheritance?
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Inheritance is the way that genitically based traits are passed on from generation to generation.
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Up until the 1900s many scientists believed that traits in offspring were a blend of parental traits.  Why is this idea incorrect?
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All of these
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What is plant hybridization?
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The process of crossing two genetically different parent plants to produce offspring with traits of both parents.
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True/False: An example of horticulture is crossing one plant that grows quickly with another plant that is pest resistanct in the lab in order to produce offspring that both grow quickly and are pest resistant.
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True
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How was Mendel able to manipulate pea plants to determine the mechanism of inheritance?
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Pea flower pollen is contained in the anther and can be removed from the plant and used to fertilize another flower's ovules contained in the carpel.
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What was Joseph Kolreuter's contribution to our understanding of heredity?
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Kolreuter found that reciprocal crosses produce identical offspring
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Gregor Mendels's study of what subject was crucial in his ability to analyze his hybridization experiments...
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Statistics
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True/False: In the Origin of the Species Charles Darwin was able to fully describe the mechanism of evolution because he understod Gregor Mendel's paper on inheritance.
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False
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Put the following events in Mendel's life in chronological order
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1, 4, 2, 3, 5
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True/False: Mendel's work filled such a large void in the understanding of genetics that it was no wonder it was hailed as a masterpiece when it was published in 1866.
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False
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Which of the following sums up Josef Kohleuter's main contribution to the field of genetics?
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He determined that both the male and female equally contribute to the appearance of traits in the offspring
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What is the best explanation as to why the theory of blending inheritance was abandoned?
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It could not explain how variation in individuals was maintained over time.
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Which of the following is an example of a reciprocal cross?
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yellow male x green female

green male x yellow female

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Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons that Mendel succeeded in determining the principles of inheritance?
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He followed the inheritance pattern of many traits at the same time.
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A true breeding strain is one that?
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produces offspring of the same variety when they self -pollinate
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To investigate patterns of inheritance Mendel looked at traits that
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Were dichotomous in nature
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Mendel's primary experiments were conducted with
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Pea plants
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Genetic studies in the 1900s often used the fruit fly as a model.  Why did early studies of inheritance in the 1700s and 1800s use plants?
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All of these
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Which one of the followin best describes a monohybrid cross?
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Plants that differ in a single trait are cross-pollinated with each other.
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Which one of the following is not true of Mendel's parental cross?
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His results indicated a ratio in the offspring of 3:1
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Which of the following best describes a reciprocal cross?
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Pollen from plant A is transferred to plant B and pollen from plant B is transferred to plant A
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Mendel used pea plants for his experiments for all of the following reasons except which of the following?
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the characters varied over a continuous range of phenotypes
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Mendel hypothesized that traits did not blend together like paint but were particulate.  At what part of the experiment could Mendel rule out the blending mode of inheritance?
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At the F2, when the masked variety reappeared
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Mendel found that monohybrid crosses of true-breeding plants that differ in one trait always produced F1 offspring of the same variety. This variety of the trait is considered
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dominant
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From his experimental results, Mendel developed a hypothesis that is now called the first law of segregation. Which of the following is not a part of this hypothesis?
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Every organism gets two copies of a gene from each parent
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Which of the following is not true of Mendel’s mechanism of inheritance?
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Heritable factors that are dominant are more likely to be passed on to the next generation.
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When a true breeding smooth-seeded pea plant is crossed with one that is a true breeding wrinkled seeded pea plant, why is a wrinkled-seeded offspring unlikely to result?
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The smooth seeded gene masks the wrinkled seeded gene in the F1 generation
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In pea plants, plants with inflated pods are crossed with ones with constricted pods. All of the offspring are found to have inflated pods. If a cross is carried out among the offspring, what would be the expected ratio for the phenotypes of the F2 generation?
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Three inflated to one constricted
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A pea plant with green pods is crossed with a pea plant with yellow pods. The F1 generation was all the same color. If 75% of the F2 generation have green pods and 25% have yellow pods, what conclusion can we make?
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Both parent plants were true breeding
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Let S be the allele for smooth seeds and s be the allele for wrinkled seeds. If an individual has the allelic combination Ss, which of the following is a true statement concerning this individual?
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The individual has smooth seeds
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According to Mendel’s model, which of the following is the best explanation for a given trait disappearing for a generation?
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Dominant alleles mask recessive alleles.
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Which of the following Mendelian conclusions describes the process of meiosis?
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Alleles are segregated in the formation of gametes.
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Which one of the following best illustrates alleles of a gene?
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A gene for green pods and a gene for yellow pods.
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