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Study for second bio mid term Marianopolis
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Biology
12th Grade
03/25/2014

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Term
Describe Prokaryotes
Definition
-reproduce by binary fission
- chromosome replicates
-copied regions move to opposite ends
-bacteria grows then splits in 2
Term
Define Haploid
Definition
cell containing 1 set of chromosome (n=23)
Term
What is a Somatic Cell
Definition
Any cell in multicellular organism except sperm or egg or precursors
*these are Diploid
Term
Define Gamete
Definition
haploid reproductive cell (sperm/egg)
*Unite during sexual reproduction to produce diploid zygote
Term
Define Diploid
Definition
cell containing 2 sets of chromosomes (2n=46)
*one set/parent
Term
How many pairs of Autosomes (non-sex chromosomes)
Definition
22
Term
True or False:
Each pair of autosomes are attached at centromere and have same size
Definition
True
Term
True or False:
Homologous = similar but not identical DNA sequences
Definition
true
Term
How many chromosomes in Somatic cells
Definition
46 chromosomes
Term
True or False:
One set of sex chromosome which determine Sex
Definition
True
Term
True or False:
Somatic cells are diploid
Definition
True
Term
Describe Zygote
Definition
Diploid cell, result of union of 2 haploid sex cells during fertilization
Term
What is a Synonym of Zygote
Definition
Fertilized egg
Term
What is GOAL of Meiosis?
Definition
create new variety
Term
Describe Meiosis
Definition
-Production of sex cells
-reduction of chromosome number (Diploid to haploid)
Term
What restores diploid condition in humans?
Definition
Fertilization
Term
Give synonym of Meiosis
Definition
Reproduction
Term
Define Meiosis I
Definition
-Separation of homologous chromosomes
-Has 4 phases
Term
Name all phases of Meiosis I
Definition
Prophase I
Metaphase I
Anaphase I
Telophase I
Cytokinesis I
Term
Describe each phase of Meiosis I
Definition
PROPHASE: homologous chromosomes pair up, tetrad formed, Crossing over occurs
METAPHASE: Tetrads arrange at metaphase plate
ANAPHASE:separation of chromosomes, move to opposite poles
TELOPHASE: haploid set of chromosomes at each pole
sister chromatids remain linked
CYTOKINESIS: 2 haploid cells, each chromosome has pair of sister chromatids
Term
What is synapsis?
Definition
formation of tetrad
Term
What is crossing over?
Definition
chromosome crossing + exchange of segments
Term
What is Meiosis II
Definition
separation of sister chromatids
leads to 4 daughter cells
similar to meiosis
Term
Where is the place of mixing (crossing over)
Definition
Chiasma
Term
What caused genetic variation?
Definition
Fertilization and meiosis
Term
what is independent assortment?
Definition
-random orientation of tetrads on metaphase plate
-50/50 chance of getting mom or dad chromosome
-each pair of chromosome is positioned independently to others
Term
what are possible combinations of chromosomes?
Definition
2^n (n=23 in humans so approx 8 million)
Term
Define random fertilization
Definition
any sperm can fuze with any egg
Term
what are mutations
Definition
additional variation in genes
Term
Define Character/Gene
Definition
detectable inheritance feature (eye colour)
Term
What is a Trait/Allele
Definition
variant of character (blue eyes, brown eyes etc)
Term
Define Law of Segregation
Definition
Homologous chromosomes seperate during gamete formation
Term
True or false: A Plant will give gametes with both P and p
Definition
False
Term
What is dominant Trait
Definition
means that only one copy of gene required in diploid individual to express trait
Term
True or False: a Recessive Trait will only need one copy of gene to express trait
Definition
False
Term
What is Locus?
Definition
Specific location on chromosome
Term
Do two alleles segregate during gamete production?
Definition
Yes
Term
Define Homozygous
Definition
Where there are two identical alleles for one gene
Term
Defin Heterozygous
Definition
Having two different alleles for one gene
Term
True of False: The phenotype is not the physical expression of a gene
Definition
false it is
Term
What is Genotype
Definition
Organism's genetic makeup
Term
Define Test Crossing
Definition
Method used to determine if an organism of the dominant phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous
Term
True or False: Alleles inherited together do not necessarily get passed down together
Definition
True
Term
What is incomplete dominance
Definition
Where the heterozygotes show an indeterminate phenotype ex: red becomes pink
Term
What is Codominance
Definition
Full expression of both alleles in heterozygote
ex: ABO blood group
Term
What happens if you transfuse the wrong blood to a person?
Definition
The antibodies will attack the red blood cells of the donor
Term
What is universal blood recipient and why?
Definition
AB, because no antibodies in serum
Term
What is universal blood donor and why?
Definition
O, because neither anti A nor anti B on red blood cells on surface so nothing to attack
Term
True or False: an individual can have more than two alleles
Definition
False, two is maximum amount
Term
Define Pleitropy
Definition
Single gene has multiple phenotypic effects
Term
True or False: Epistasis is a gene present at multiple locides (locus)
Definition
False, at one locus only
Term
What is epistasis?
Definition
Gene at 1 locus alters the phenotypic expression at another locus
Term
True or False: Additive effect of two or more genes leads to a single phenotypic character is polygenic inheritance?
Definition
True
Term
Define polygenic inheritance
Definition
Additive effect of two or more genes leads to a single phenotypic character
Term
True or False: Human genetic disorders can be either recessively inherited or dominantly inherited
Definition
True
Term
What is the Disease of mucus secreting glands
Definition
cystic fibrosis
Term
Name the two reasons for recessively inherited disorders
Definition
phenotype is caused by the inheritance of two recessive alleles

Allele codes for: malfunctioning protein or no protein at all
Term
What causes Tay Sachs
Definition
Absence of enzymes that metabolize lipids in the brain
Term
Tay Sachs is not lethal
Definition
False
Term
Name 4 examples of recessive inherited disorders
Definition
Tay Sachs
Cystic fibrosis
Sickle cell anemia
Albanism
Term
What is sickle cell anemia
Definition
Malformation of red blood cells
Term
What is needed for a disorder to be dominantly inherited
Definition
At least one disease allele must be present
Term
Describe Huntington disease according to notes
Definition
Degenerative disease of nervous system
starts around 40-50 yrs old
offspring has 50% chance of inheriting disease
Term
Define Achondroplasia
Definition
Dwarfism
Term
True or False: Males carry 2X chromosomes
Definition
False
Term
Can women be either homozygous or heterozygous for an X-linked trait
Definition
Yes
Term
True Or False: Males carry only one copy of X chromosome
Definition
True
Term
True or False: Males pass down X linked genes to only daughters
Definition
True
Term
True or false: Mothers can not pass down X linked gene to both boys and girls
Definition
False
Term
How are females protected from X linked disorders
Definition
By the presence of the second X chromosome
Term
True or False: Females have to inherit only one of the X linked chromosomes to express the disorder
Definition
False
Term
What are some recessive X-linked disorders
Definition
Colour Blindness
Haemophilia
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Term
The genes are active on the Barr Body
Definition
False
Term
Define Lyon hypothesis
Definition
Inactivation occurs randomly in embryonic cells
Term
True or False: Patches of tissue have only 1 active X chromosome
Definition
True
Term
True or False: The presence of 2 diseases alleles will lead to death
Definition
True
Term
Name 2 steps in pedigree analysis
Definition
1) deducing if a trait is determined by recessive or dominant allele
2) predict the occurrence of a trait in future generations
Term
What gave rise to the first cells on earth
Definition
Chemical Evolution
Term
Name 4 stages to origin of life
Definition
1) Abiotic synthesis (no lifeforms)
2)Polymer formation (proteins & nucleic acids)
3)Self-Replicating molecules (origin of heredity)
4)Aggregation of polymers
Term
True or False: clay is good for molecule development
Definition
True
Term
Name Building blocks for life (molecules)
Definition
H2O, H2, CH4, NH3, CO, CO2 & N2
Term
True or False: Protobionts are supposed predecessors of living form
Definition
True
Term
When did 1st prokaryotes appear
Definition
3.5 billion years ago
Term
when did 1st eukaryotes appear?
Definition
2.1 billion years ago
Term
When did 1st multicellular eukaryotes appear?
Definition
1.2 billion years ago
Term
When was the cambrian explosion?
Definition
535-525 million years ago
Term
When did fungi, plants and animals colonize the earth
Definition
500 million years ago
Term
Name each category of the tree of life for domain eukarya
Definition
Kingdom animalia, phylum (Cordata), Order (Carnivore), Family (felidae), Genus (panthera), Species (panthera pardus)
Term
What is wat to remember tree of life easily?
Definition
King Philip, Cried Out For Good Sex
Term
What are Bacterias that live in extreme conditions
Definition
Archaeas
Term
What are the 3 know Domains
Definition
Bacteria, Archea and eukarya
Term
True or False: Kingdom Monera includes Bacteria and archaebacteria
Definition
True
Term
Only a small amount of bacteria are Pathogenic
Definition
True
Term
What are simple Genomes
Definition
single circular chromosome found in nucleoid region
Term
How do bacteria reproduce
Definition
Binary Fission
Term
Do some bacteria Form resistant cells called Endospores?
Definition
Yes
Term
True or False: Bacterias may have Flagella for motion?
Definition
True
Term
Name functions of cell wall in bacteria
Definition
1) structure 2) protection 3) preventions from bursting in hypotonic environnement
Term
True or False: Bacteria cell wall may be surounded by gelatinous capsule that protects against hosts defences?
Definition
True
Term
What do photoautotrophes use as energy source?
Definition
light
Term
What do Chemoautotrophes use as energy source?
Definition
oxidization of inorganic compounds
Term
What does the word Organic mean?
Definition
containing Carbon
Term
Chemohetotrophes use what as energy and carbon source?
Definition
organic molecules
Term
How do saprobes get energy?
Definition
absoption of nutrients from dead organism
Term
Name 3 ways bacteria live in symbiotic relationship with a host
Definition
Mutualism, parasitism, commensalism
Term
True or False: obligate aerobes don't require O2 for survival
Definition
False (Use O2 for cell resp. )
Term
T or F: Facultative anaerobes grow in presence of O2 and without O2
Definition
True
Term
Obligante anaerobes are unable to grow in O2
Definition
True
Term
Explain the Blending Hypothesis
Definition
people believed that genetic information of parents blended together, creating offsprings that were a genetic blend of both
Term
True or false: to this day, the blending hypothesis is used to explain genetic inheritance
Definition
False. it was disproven by Mendel
Term
Define Monohybrid cross
Definition
crossing of 2 heterozygous individuals for 1 gene
(e.g; AaXAa)
Term
Define Dihybrid Cross
Definition
crossing of 2 heterozygous individuals for 2 genes
(eg; AaBbXAaBb)
Term
what is the chance of a heterozygous individual of producing a gamete carrying the dominant allele for this gene?
Definition
50%
Term
What is the phenotypes ratio of offspring being homozygous dominant, heterozygous or homozygous recessive when both parents are heterozygous?
Definition
9:3:3:1
Term
If mother has A blood and the father has type B blood, whant possible blood type could their children be?
Definition
A,B,AB or O
Term
If the mother has type O blood and the father has type B blood, what possible blood type can their children be?
Definition
O, B
Term
True or False, Pleitropy is a phylum that fall under kingdom protista
Definition
false. pleitropy is a non mendelian law.
Term
Skin color is an example of which non mendelian law?
Definition
Polygenic inheritance.
Term
T or F: prokaryotes did not evolve into eukaryotes
Definition
False
Term
how did prokaryotes become eukaryotes
Definition
through endosymbiosis, one goes into plasma mb to for golgi etc
Term
why is being eukaryotic good vs. Prokaryotic
Definition
Eukaryotes can have specialized organelles
Term
What are protists
Definition
earliest eukaryotic cells
Term
Give characteristics of protists
Definition
unicellular, form colonies, some are simple multicellular,
Term
Where are protists found?
Definition
anywhere there is water
Term
how are protists grouped
Definition
On their modes of feeding
Term
Name the modes pf feeding of protists
Definition
animal like (ingestive heterotrophes)
Plant like (photosynthesis)
Fungi like (absorptive heterotroph)
Term
What did plants on earth evolve from
Definition
aquatic organisms
Term
T or F: plants are multicellular eukaryotes
Definition
True
Term
What are 5 evidence for evolution of plants from aqutic organismes
Definition
1. homologous chloroplast 2. cell wall containing cellulose 3. store food as starch 4. similarity in sperm structure 5. similarities in mitosis and cytokinesis
Term
Name 4 plant groups
Definition
Bryophytes, pterophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms
Term
What are functions of Xylem and Phloem
Definition
Xylum conducts water and minerals from roots to rest of plant
Phloem conducts nutrients throughout plant arranged into tubules
Term
Which of the following disease is sex linked:
-cystic fibrosis
-Tay Sachs
-Sickle cell anemia
- Colour blindness
- Albinism
Definition
colour blindness
Term
is huntington's disease dominant or recessive?
Definition
Dominant
Term
True or False: only one copy of the recessive allele must be inherited if it is a sex-links recessive disorder
Definition
true
Term
True or false: Tay sachs is the absence of pigment in hair, eyes and skin
Definition
False
Term
True or False: Albinism is associated with impaired vision
Definition
True
Term
what are the chances of having an affected child if one parent carries huntington's disease and the other doesn't?
Definition
50% Chance since the disease is dominant
Term
What are the chances of two parents (HHXHh) for huntington's of having an affected child?
Definition
100% chance since dominant disease
Term
Which of the Following is Autosomal Dominant: Sickle cell anemia, Albinism or dwarfism?
Definition
Dwarfism
Term
What is the name of human sex determination system?
Definition
X-Y
Term
What sex determinate system is used by grasshoppers?
Definition
X-0
Term
how are male bees produced? how are females produced?
Definition
Male bees come from unfertilized eggs (haploid)
Females come from fertilized eggs (diploid)
Term
in which sex determinate system are females carrying XX
Definition
X-Y and X-0 systems
Term
True or False: female birds determine the sex of their offspring.
Definition
True
Term
True or false: ants have no sex chromosomes
Definition
true
Term
Most sex-linked disorders are carried on which chrs?
Definition
X chromosome
Term
Colour blindness, hemophilia and duschenne muscular dystrophy are examples of what?
Definition
X-linked disorders
Term
What is X-inactivation?
Definition
when only one of the 2 X curs in females is expressed
Term
which domain has a nuclear envelope?
Definition
Domain Eukarya
Term
True or False: Archaea have peptidoglycan in their celll walls?
Definition
False
Term
Which shape is chrs in domain bacteria and archaea?
Definition
circular chromosome
Term
What are the three bacteria shapes?
Definition
Spherical, Rod-shaped, Spiral
Term
what is the function of fimbrias?
Definition
help certain prokaryotes attach to the surface of other cells
Term
what are flagella made of?
Definition
microtubules
Term
True of False: Saprobes provide oxygen to other organisms
Definition
False, chemoautotrophs do
Term
what is the name of the method by which Facultative anaerobes produce energy?
Definition
Fermentation
Term
What are the 2 major feature proving the endisymbiont theory?
Definition
endomembrane systemn
organelles
Term
how do organelles split?
Definition
binary fission, just like bacteria
Term
What are the earliest, simplest eukaryotes?
Definition
Protists
Term
what size are algae cells?
Definition
10-500micrometer
Term
What are flagellates
Definition
protists that use flagella to move
Term
What do dome protists use to pump water out of the cell?
Definition
contractile vacuole
Term
What is osmoregulation?
Definition
control of H2O
Term
How do you call the mouth of a protist?
Definition
Oral Groove
Term
what is a protozoa?
Definition
animal like protist
Term
How do amoeba move?
Definition
pseudopodia
Term
True or False: Protists use sexual reproduction
Definition
False
Term
what i conjugation?
Definition
it is the exchange of genetic material between 2 protists. Exchange of micronuclei
Term
What are chlorophytas?
Definition
ancestor of land plants
Term
True or False: plant-like protists can reproduce sexually and asexually
Definition
true
Term
what do fungi-like protists and fungi have in common?
Definition
they absorb their food
Term
True or False: fungus and animal have a common ancestor
Definition
True. this ancestor was probably flagellated
Term
what is the fungi cell wall made of?
Definition
chitin
Term
how do we call the underground part of the hyphae?
Definition
mycelium
Term
what is the major difference between septate hypha and asepta hypha?
Definition
septate hypha has speta, which divides the cells. asepta hypha lack septa.
Term
True or false: fungi digest nutrients before ingestion?
Definition
True.
Term
What do fungi secrete in order to feed themselves?
Definition
Hydrolytic enzymes and acids
Term
how are fungi parasite's hyphae called?
Definition
Haustoria
Term
what is the function of haustoria?
Definition
to penetrate body of host and absorb its nutrients
Term
what is an example of mutualist fungus?
Definition
lichen
Term
how are fungi spores' dispersed?
Definition
wind and water
Term
how are fungi spores produced?
Definition
asexually (under favourable conditions) or sexually (under stress conditions)
Term
what is plasmogamy?
Definition
the fusion of 2 gametes but not their nuclei
Term
Lichen is an example of what type of mutualism?
Definition
between fungi+algae or fungi+cyanobacteria
Term
What are the benefits of lichen for cyanobacteria and algae?
Definition
lichen provides a place for them to attach and grow
Term
What fungus is found in beer?
Definition
Yeast
Term
How does yeast asexually reproduce?
Definition
budding
Term
what is penicillin?
Definition
fungus used as antibiotic
Term
what does mycorrhizae does to the roots of a plant?
Definition
mutualism:
supplies mineral nutrients
protects from pathogens
Term
What are the 6 adaptations to dry land that organisms from kindom plantae had?
Definition
roots or root-like structures
vascular bundles
reproductive adaptations
alternation of generation
waxy cuticles
stomata
Term
What is embryophyte?
Definition
in land plants, the zygote is retained within the parent
Term
sporophyte is larger than gametophyte in every plant type except for?
Definition
mosses
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