miércoles, 19 de julio de 2017

REVIEW QUIZ 2 PERIOD 3

REVIEW
Species                                Genetic drift                      Mutations                                                         Hybridization                                    Adaptations     Inbreeding                                         Hybridization                                   Natural Selection
 Mutant                                                              Transgenic                                                          Clone
Recombinant DNA                                         Evolution            Artificial Selection          Geography                                        Biogeography                   speciation
               
 The study of where organisms live now and where they and their ancestors lived in the past.
 Heritable changes in genetic information, they can be beneficial or harmful:
 Maintain desirable characteristics in a line of organisms:
Organism produced from a single cell using identical cells:
 The process in which organisms have changed through time:
Crossing two different individuals to bring together the best of both organisms.
Nature provides the variations, humans choosing the ones they find useful:
Changes in the body or behavior to fit a location.  They are heritable characteristics that increase an organism’s ability to survive in its environment.
Physical or behavioral traits that have been inherited from ancestors but have lost much or all of their original function.
Organisms that has been modified by inserting genes from a different species.
Drastic changes in alleles frequencies that affect populations.
Organisms able to reproduce in a population:
One species becoming two:

Difference between inbreeding and artificial selection.
Types of mutations:
What is a vestigial trait?
Which were the 3 things Darwin observed during his trip?
Natural selection occurs when:
What’s the difference between homologous structures and analogous structures?
Describe the” founder effect” as genetic drift:
Describe the bottle neck effect:
Explain the following topics:
Application of Genetic Engineering
Agriculture and Industry
Health and Medicine
Personal Identification

Evidence of Evolution
Biogeography
Fossils
Embryology
Anatomy
Genetics

Speciation of Darwin’s finches
Founders Arrive
Geographical Isolation
Changes in Gene Pool
Behavioral Isolation
Competition and Continued Evolution


Find the missing genotypes using the pedigree



 

domingo, 4 de junio de 2017

REVIEW QUIZ 1 PERIOD 3

USE THE WORD BANK TO MATCH THE WORDS WITH THE DEFINITIONS.




  1. Science of heredity:
  2. The process in which the sperm and the egg create a zygote is called:
  3. Not “true breeding”.  The cross-pollination of two flowers, with the offspring having two different alleles (heterozygote) it is called:  
  4. Plants that perform self-pollination, they are homozygote, not a hybrid, they are:
  5. When a plant pollinates itself it is called:
  6. When stamens are cut from a plant and pollinate a different plant, it is called:
  7. A trait:
  8. Different forms of a gene:
  9. Eggs and sperm are:
  10. Alleles that are the same (dominant-dominant or recessive-recessive):
  11. Different alleles (dominant-recessive):
  12. The way genotype expresses physically:
  13. Your genes, your alleles are called:
  14. When an offspring shows a trait that is somewhere in between two alleles it is called (red flower, white flower, pink offspring):
  15. When an offspring shows both traits of both parents it is called (instead of just the one dominant):
  16. When a trait is ruled by more than two alleles:
  17. Cells that have two sets of chromosomes (full genetic material):
  18. Cells that have only one set of chromosomes (half genetic material):
  19. Process in which sex cells are made, cells divide:
  20. Process in which chromosomes from both parents exchange genetic material:
  21. Fertilized egg (by sperm):
  22. Genetic code:
  23. Group of a phosphate, deoxyribose and a nitrogenous base (in DNA):
  24. Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine are:
  25. DNA tightly packed, ready for cell division: 

Answer the following questions.


  1. How many chromosomes do humans have?
  2. Who was Gregor Mendel?
  3. What are the differences between mitosis and meiosis?
  4. Differences and similarities between RNA and DNA.
  5. What are the 3 types of RNA and their function?
  6. Write the steps of the protein synthesis.  Transcription and translation.


Write HE if the alleles are heterozygous or HO if they are homozygous.
1. WW
2. Ww
3. PP
4. dd
5. Cc
6. Gg

Write the genotype of the following organisms.
  • Widow’s peak is a dominant trait.
  • Widow’s peak:  _______ ________
  • No widow’s peak: _______
  • Freckles is a dominant trait.
  • Freckles: _______ _______
  • No freckles: ________

Write the phenotype of the following genotypes

  • Cleft chin is a dominant trait.
  • Cc
  • CC
  • cc
  • Dimples is a dominant trait.
  • dd
  • DD
  • Dd

HEREDITY PROBLEMS

1. Round seeds are dominant to wrinkled seeds.  Show the cross for a pure breeding round seed with a pure breeding wrinkle seed plant.  

What percentage of the offspring will be round seeded? 
What percentage will be heterozygous?


2. Show the cross of a two heterozygous round seeded plants.

What percentage if the offspring will be round? 
What percentage will be homozygous?


3. Show the cross of a heterozygous round seed plant with a homozygous round seed plant. 

What percentage of the offspring will be wrinkled? 
What percentage will be homozygous?


FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT SEQUENCE



miércoles, 26 de abril de 2017

sábado, 8 de octubre de 2016

General Review - study guide

Write the definitions, the characteristics of each of the following living organisms.  You can use quiz 1 to help you out.
1. Sponges 
2. Cnidarians 
3. Arthropods 
4. Roundworms 
5. Flatworms 
6. Annelids 
7. Mollusks 
8. Echinoderms 
9. Fish 
10. Reptiles 
11. Mammals 
12. Amphibians 
13. Birds 
14. Protists 
15. Nonvertebrate chordates
16. Bacteria
17. Archaea
18. Eukarya
19. Protists
20. Fungi

Define the function of each of the systems.
1. Digestive System 
2. Excretory System 
3. Nervous System 
4. Skeletal System 
5. Muscular System 
6. Integumentary System 
7. Circulatory System 
8. Respiratory System 
9. Endocrine System 
10. Reproductive System
Identify the main organs and the functions (what each one does).
1. Digestive System
Mouth, pharynx, trachea, epiglottis, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, rectum.
4 phases of digestion.
2. Excretory System 
Lungs, liver, skin, kidneys.
3. Nervous System
2 nervous systems: Central, peripheral.  Brain: cerebellum, brainstem, hypothalamus, cerebrum. Cerebrum: 4 lobes. Neurons. 3 types: motor, inter, and sensor.  Autonomic and somatic nervous systems (“fight or fly”).
4. Skeletal System
Name of the bones.
5. Muscular System
3 types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, cardiac. The difference between each and where do you find them.
6. Integumentary System
Skin.  5 functions, the biggest organ, layers.
7. Circulatory System
The heart, 4 chambers: atriums, ventricles.  Arteries, veins.  Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets. 
8. Respiratory System
Nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, diaphragm, rib cage.
10. Reproductive System
Male: Testis, seminiferous tubes, epididymis, vas deference, seminal vesicle, bulbourethral gland, prostate gland, urinary bladder, urethra, penis, rectum. 
         Female: Ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina, urinary bladder, urethra.
Analyze
1. What is the difference between the autonomic and the somatic nervous system? 
2. Which one is the only human body system you can live without? 
3. What is the difference between tarsals and carpals? 
4. What advantages do flowering plants have?
5. Are we more related to plants or to fungi? 
6. What advantages do seeds have?
7. How are protists classified?
8.  What is the difference between chyme and bolus?
9. What happens when you choke while eating?
10. 4 parts of blood.