Cytogenetics Prelim Examination (Summer 2023)

The study of biologically inherited traits, including influence of the environment defines;

• Genetics

• Cytology

• Cytogenetics

• Inheritance

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Which of the following is NOT a concern of classical genetics?

• Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance

• Location of Genes

• Recombinant DNA Technology

• Relative Position of Genes

The study of genetics is concerned with all of the following, EXCEPT;

1.       Transmission of genes

2.       Expression of genes

3.       Evaluation of genes

4.       Molecules that controls function

• 1, 2, and 3

• 4 only

• 1 and 2

• 2 only

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A scientist who discovered that a cell contains a nucleus was;

• Robert Hooke

• William Brown

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Eduard Straburger

“All living things are composed of one cell or more and their products” is the proposition of;

• Robert Hooke and Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• William Brown and Ernst Abbe

• Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann

• Walther Flemming and Jean - Baptiste Lamarck

In 1870, Abbe was able to discover attachment of microscope that enables microscopist view cell details especially nucleus. This part of the microscope is;

• Condenser and Low Power Objective Lens

• Condenser and High Power Objective Lens

• Condenser and Oil Immersion Lens

• Compound Microscope

“Germ Plasm” Theory was proposed by;

• Wilhelm Waldeyer

• Ernst Abbe

• Gregor Mendel

• August Weismann

Edward Tatum and George Beadle in separate years proposed;

• Germ Plasm Theory

• Theory of Inheritance

• One-gene-one-enzyme Hypothesis

• Evolution by Natural Selection

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The attachment point of the spindle fiber during cell division is located at;

• Kinetochore

• Centromere

• Chromosome

• Chromatid

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Defined as the sequence of DNA coded for series of amino acids that make-up protein;

• Gene

• Allele

• Chromosome

• Mitosis

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