Crash Course: Genetics - Lost and Found

Crash Course: Genetics - Lost and Found

Multiple Choice

What is Charles Darwin known for?

• Discovering atoms and developing the atomic theory

• Studying physics and developing the theory of relativity

• Studying adaptations of organisms and developing the theory of evolution

• Studying fossils and developing the theory of plate tectonics

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What was the term that Darwin use to describe genes?

• genes

• traits

• DNA

• pangenes

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Where is Gregor Mendel from?

• Austria

• Germany

• United States

• France

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What did Mendel study at university?

• science and philosophy

• religion and science

• art and science

• philiosophy and religion

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What did Mendel chose to do as a career

• botanist (studied plants)

• artist

• monk

• biologist

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What organism did Mendel breed and study?

• humans

• sheep

• English peas

• green beans

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How many plants did Mendel grow throughout his seven year-long study?

• 28

• 2800

• 28,000

• 28,000,000

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Which of the following is NOT a trait of the pea plants that Mendel studied?

• pod shape and color

• number of leaves

• flower location and color

• plant height

• seed shape and color

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What is quantitative biology?

• description based

• measurement based

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What did Darwin breed and study?

• pea plants

• finches

• turtles

• pigeons (like you did in Pigeonetics!)

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Why were pea plants a better choice than pigeons when studying genetics and heredity?

• They are more well-behaved.

• They reproduce faster.

• It is more ethical.

• They have less traits.

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The genes that control traits are distinct.

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Dominance

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Genes that control different traits switch around when organisms breed. Changing a pea's seed color in breeding doesn't seem to change it's height.

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Dominance

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Some traits are dominant and others recessive.

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Dominance

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Even though he is now considered the "father of genetics", why wasn't Mendel well known or celebrated during his lifetime?

• He didn't care to be.

• He was socially and geographically isolated living as a monk.

• He had back luck reproducing his results with a plant that he did not realize reproduced asexually.

• He was promoted to Abbot and did not have time to continue or complete his study.

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

What species did the students at Columbia University study?

• pea plants

• pigeons

• peaches

• fruit flies

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a model organism?

• flies

• worms

• rats/mice

• rabbits

• humans

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What organiam did Barbara McClintock use to study heredity?

• peas

• flies

• mice

• corn