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AP biology meiosis quiz

Authored by Peter Pavlis

Biology

12th Grade

NGSS covered

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AP biology meiosis quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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A male shark has 40 chromosomes in each of its sperm. How many would be present in its body cells?

20
40
80
160

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...

16 chromosomes.
46 chromosomes.
8 chromosomes.
4 chromosomes.

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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Meiosis makes sperm and egg cells. In humans, sperm and egg cells each have _____ chromosomes. Therefore a fertilized human egg cell (sperm and egg cell combined) would create a cell with _____ chromosomes.

23, 46
46, 23
2, 4
50, 100

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Crossing over helps promote 

male genotype
genetic variation
DNA replication
mitosis

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The purpose of meiosis is to form ________ cells.

body
sex
somatic
brain

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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When an area of a chromatid is exchanged with the matching area on a chromatid of its homologous chromosome, _________________ occurs

crossing over
mutagenesis
hybridization
fertilization

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If the Diploid number of Carrots is 18, the haploid number is

18
9
27
36

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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