3RD QUARTER GEN BIO REVIEWER

A scientist found out that a bacteria infected by bacteriophages had

developed an ability to make an amino acid that could not make before.

These new ability was probably a result of

• Transformation

• Conjugation

• Microinjection

• Transduction

BT Corn, in which application of recombinant technology does it belong?

• Gene Products

• Pharmaceutical

• Agriculture

Which is not an application of recombinant DNA technology in medicine?

• A. Growth Hormone

• B. Insulin

• C. golden rice

• D. Blood clotting factor VIII

What is the correct order of the eons in Earth’s history?

• a. Archaean, Phanerozoic, and Proterozoic

• b. Phanerozoic, Archaean, and Proterozoic

• c. Proterozoic, Archaean, Phanerozoic

• d. Archaean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic

The early ___________ were Earth’s sole inhabitants from approximately 3.5

billion years to about 2.1 BYA.

• a. eukaryotes

• b. endosymbionts

• c. prokaryotes

• d. stromatolites

This refers to magnification of genetic drift as a result of natural events or

catastrophes.

• bottleneck effect

• gene pool

• allele frequency

• inbreeding depression

Who argued that human populations grow faster than the resources they

depend on?

• A. Thomas Malthus

• B. Charles Lyell

• C. Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• D. Alfred Russel Wallack

Natural selection states that ___.

• A. a change in a species occurs over time

• B. nature selects the variations within a species that are most useful for

  survival

• C. fitness is an organism’s ability to survive and produce fertile offspring.

• D. all of the above

Which of these theories of evolution was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?

• A. Theory of Natural Selection

• B. Theory of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

• C. Speciation Theory

• D.Epigenetic Inheritance Theory

These structures can be observed in various organisms that indicate their

relation to a common ancestor by virtue of their resemblance.

• A. Vestigial structures

• B. Homologous structures

• C. Analogous structures

• D. Parsimonious structures