Unit 4 : Genetics

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IBD Biology (Unit 4 : Genetics) Quiz sobre Unit 4 : Genetics, criado por cloud.berry em 28-05-2013.
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Questão 1

Questão
The largest organelle in a cell is the ____ .
Responda
  • Nucleus
  • Mitochondria
  • Cytoplasm
  • Plasma membrane

Questão 2

Questão
The first thing to divide during cell division is the ____ which controls and directs the activities of the cell throughout life; it contains the ____ which is passed from generation to generation during reproduction.
Responda
  • Nucleus | hereditary material
  • Nucleus | gene
  • Cytoplasm | chromosome

Questão 3

Questão
Each ____ consists of ____, a huge molecule consisting of 2 ____ strands in the form of a double helix which runs ____ of the chromosome and is supported by ____ .
Responda
  • Chromosome | DNA | paired | the full length | protein
  • Chromosome | DNA | separate | for half | histones
  • Chromatid | DNA | linked | the full length | protein

Questão 4

Questão
A pair of genes with the same alleles are called ____ .
Responda
  • Homozygous
  • Heterozygous
  • Homologous

Questão 5

Questão
When the ____ chromosomes have paired up closely, each pair is called a ____.
Responda
  • Homologous | bivalent
  • Homozygous | Bivalent

Questão 6

Questão
Crossing over occurs in ____ .
Responda
  • Prophase I
  • Metaphase I
  • Prophase II
  • Metaphase II
  • Anaphase I
  • Anaphase II
  • Telophase I
  • Telophase II
  • Cytokinesis

Questão 7

Questão
The four ____ cells produced in meiosis differ genetically from each other because of ____ & ____ .
Responda
  • Haploid | Independent assortment | Crossing over
  • Diplod | Independent assortment | Crossing over

Questão 8

Questão
Mutations occurring in the body cells of multicellular organisms are called ____ mutations.
Responda
  • Somatic
  • Nomatic
  • Domatic
  • Lomatic
  • Homatic
  • Comatic

Questão 9

Questão
A mutation is a change in the ____ or ____ of ____ which may result in a ____ of an organism.
Responda
  • Type | genetic structure | the cell | change in the characteristics
  • Amount | chemical structure | DNA | change in the characteristics
  • Amount | base structure | DNA | change in the functions

Questão 10

Questão
Non - disjunction is the term given to the ____ and go to opposite poles during the nuclear division of the nucleus.
Responda
  • Failure of a pair chromatids to separate
  • Success of a pair of chromatids separating
  • Failure of a pair of chromosomes to separate

Questão 11

Questão
People with down syndrome have an extra chromosome __ , giving them a total of 47 chromosomes.
Responda
  • 21
  • 9
  • 7
  • 23
  • 1
  • 3
  • 11

Questão 12

Questão
In chromosome mutations there is a change in the ____ or ____ of ____ . Gene mutations are changes in the ____ of ____ in the ____ of a gene.
Responda
  • Number | sequence | bases | sequence | genes | DNA
  • Number | sequence | genes | sequence | bases | DNA

Questão 13

Questão
Sickle cell anaemia is brought about by base substitution which is an example of a gene mutation. Here ____ is substituted with ____ which causes the mutation.
Responda
  • Glu | Pro
  • Glu | His
  • Va | Glu
  • Leu | Val
  • Thr | Pro
  • Glu | Val

Questão 14

Questão
Haemoglobin, the ____ - transporting pigment of red cells, is made of 4 ____ molecules that interlock and form a compact molecule -two of the haemoglobin molecules are known as ____ and the other two as ____ .
Responda
  • Oxygen | protein | alpha | beta
  • Carbon dioxide | hydrogen | alpha | beta

Questão 15

Questão
The gene that codes for the amino acid sequence of beta haemoglobin occurs on chromosome ____ .
Responda
  • 11
  • 10
  • 21
  • 1
  • 23
  • 14
  • 13
  • 12

Questão 16

Questão
The gene that codes for beta haemoglobin is prone to a substitution of the base ____ to ____ in a codon for the amino acid glutamic acid.
Responda
  • A | T
  • T | A
  • C | A
  • A | C
  • G | C
  • C | G
  • C | T

Questão 17

Questão
Haemophilia is a ____ condition because the genes controlling the production of the blood proteins concerned are located on the ____ chromosome .
Responda
  • Sex - linked | X
  • Sex - linked | Y

Questão 18

Questão
As in mitosis, chromosomes replicate to form chromatids during interphase, however, in meiosis __ ___ chromosomes ___ and by the end of meiosis ___ they have ___ but the chromatids they consist of do not separate until meiosis __.
Responda
  • II | homologous | pair up | I | cross over | II
  • I | homologous | separate | I | separated | I
  • I | homologous | pair up | I | separated | II
  • I | homozygous | separate | II | separated | I

Questão 19

Questão
Ways of checking for sickle cell anaemia in embryos are:
Responda
  • blood test on the mother
  • Amniocentesis
  • chorionic villus sampling
  • blood test on the father
  • X ray of the embryo

Questão 20

Questão
The effects on the properties of the haemoglobin molecule if this base substitution occurs are:
Responda
  • they tend to clump together
  • they form short fibres that distort the red cells into plump disk shapes.
  • they become low in viscosity
  • they form unusually long fibres that distort the red cells into sickle shapes.
  • they become too large for the blood vessels.

Questão 21

Questão
The inheritance of a single characteristic is known as a monohybrid cross.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
If alleles for a gene are different, they are said to be ___.
Responda
  • homozugous
  • homologous
  • heterozygous
  • heterologous

Questão 23

Questão
The ___ is the way in which the ___ of an organism is expressed- including the ___ of the organism.
Responda
  • genotype | phenotype
  • phenotype | genotype
  • appearance
  • beauty

Questão 24

Questão
when both alleles are expressed they are known as ___.
Responda
  • prodominant
  • the same
  • predominant
  • cosubmissive
  • equally powerful
  • codominant
  • this can never happen.

Questão 25

Questão
A gene is a pair of alleles that both affect the phenotype of an organism when present in a heterozygote.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

Questão
A gene is the basic unit of inheritance by which inherited characteristics are transferred from parent to offspring, consisting of a length of DNA on a chromosome.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

Questão
Examples of recessive conditions controlled by genes on the X chromosome are :
Responda
  • Haemohpilia
  • Sickle cell anaemia
  • Red-green colour blindness
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Blue-green colour blindness

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