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GENETICS STUDY GUIDE

Total questions: 67

Worksheet time: 2hrs 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did we get dogs from wolves?

a)

cave dwellers took in ancient dogs and trained them to protect and genetically altered them to have other qualities

b)

Alaskan natives took in wolves to breed with Siberian Huskies and from there other desired traits

c)

thousands of years ago the Chinese took traits and bred wolves to have desired qualities

d)

dogs didn't come from wolves

2.

What is this and what is it used for?

a)

flow map, family tree relationships

b)

pedigree, determine inherited disabilties and deseses

c)

genetic coding, splicing of family DNA to create family information

3.

How are Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin connected?

a)

both are scientists, evolution is change for survival, genetics make changes, Gregor Mendel father of genetics, Charles Darwin father of evolution, both published very important books that revolutionized important discoveries in science, both collected data that revolutionized important scientific discoveries.

b)

both won Nobel Prizes for genetics, both visited the Galapagos Islands and discovered variations among species, both died in the same century, both solved the mysteries of physics

4.

A genetic disorder can be caused by what?

a)

there is not such thing as genetic abnormalities

b)

allergies that cause an impact on the chromosomes division process, foreign particles found on the chromosomes that cause replication disabilities

c)

Chromosomes are linked together, damaged by radiation, smooth and not rough, long and not short, don't match up, half of all chromosomes are missing

d)

chromosomes or parts of chromosomes are missing,mutations in more than one gene, due to the environment or lifestyle (cancer), extra chromosomes, a mutation affects one gene, parents pass on because they are carriers of the disorder

5.

Healthy humans have this many chromosomes in every body cell?

a)

46

b)

98

c)

101

d)

27

6.

Healthy humans have this many pairs of chromosomes?

a)

32

b)

202

c)

23

d)

89

7.

What percent of US babies are born with birth defects?

a)

10

b)

3

c)

2002

d)

78

8.

What is this a picture of and what is it's purpose?

a)

Family Pedigree, helps determine heart disorders

b)

bilateral detection, disproves that genetics are capable of determining any link between ancestors

c)

Karyotype, amniocentisis, determines a baby's genetic abnormalities in pregnant mothers

d)

trisomy, a process that determines the hair color of an infant prior to birth

9.

Which is true about DNA? All true answers are on test

a)

DNA is a detailed set of plans that carries genetic information, DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid

b)

DNA is a double helix, DNA is 3 meters long

c)

DNA resides in the nucleus of a cell, DNA makes genes

d)

DNA is a single 2 cm strand, made outside of a cell

10.

Pick which is true about Gregor Mendel and facts about genetics? All true will be on the test

a)

before Gregors discoveries, people believed that characteristics were blended from each parent like mixing 2 colors of paint, and that if a short and tall person reproduced, then a medium person would be the result

b)

Gregor used pea plants because they were easily pollinated by using a soft brush and transferring the pollen from plant to plant, peas have easily observable traits such as flower color and pea texture, peas grow quickly, it was easy to control the breeding of peas

c)

Gregor contributed the concept of dominant and recessive traits and the punnet square

d)

Gregor was a iron worker who discovered the importance of genes in rocks

11.

Chromosomes are found in the nucleus of a cell, DNA is tightly wound into a chromosome, and genes are found in DNA. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What percent of bananas will be yellow?

a)

50%

b)

25%

c)

0%

d)

10%

13.

How do you make a Punnett Square?

a)

randomly place in letters

b)

wear clout goggles to help read it in bright light

c)

look at letter to left, then on top, list dominant in large letter first, recessive lower case next

14.

Which letter is dominant, and what is recessive?

a)

B is dominant, b is recessive

b)

b is dominant, B is recessive

15.

Which is Homozygous and which is Heterozygous?

a)

AA is Homozygous which means same, Aa is heterozygous which means different

b)

Aa is Homozygous which means same, aa is heterozygous which means different

16.

What does this image show?

a)

the process of making french fries

b)

phenotype is how it looks, genotype is the allele ex Bb

c)

a genetic potato

d)

a potato is irrelivant

17.

An identical twin can be accused of a crime that the other twin committed because of DNA similarities and same fingerprints?

a)

True

b)

False

18.

When were criminologists first able to use DNA in court cases as relevant evidence?

a)

2001

b)

1970

c)

1990

d)

1985

19.

What is the National DNA database of DNA called that is used to solve crimes?

a)

COD

b)

CODIS

c)

DNAB

d)

Supreme DNA

20.

What are some things that contain DNA that a forensic scientist may use to solve a crime?

a)

Surveillance cameras

b)

sweat, skin, blood, tissue, urine, hair, saliva, mucus, urine,

21.

What are some ways that GM geneticlaly modified foods , have helped us?

a)

pest resistant

b)

higher yields (more made) world hunger solution

c)

all are correct

d)

riper longer, vitamin increased

22.

DNA has 4 basesis made of chemicals, we use the first letter of these chemicals to describe each of the 4 chemicals. What does the (A) stand for?

a)

A= Adenine

b)

A= Alateen

23.

DNA has 4 bases ACTG made of chemicals, we use the first letter of these chemicals to describe each of the 4 chemicals. What does the (C) stand for?

a)

C= Cytolgist

b)

C= Cytosine

24.

DNA has 4 bases made of chemicals ACTG, we use the first letter of these chemicals to describe each of the 4 chemicals. What does the (T) stand for?

a)

T=Thymine

b)

T= Thalacimai

25.

DNA has 4 bases ACTG made of chemicals, we use the first letter of these chemicals to describe each of the 4 chemicals. What does the (G) stand for?

a)

G=Guanine

b)

G= Gastotninen

26.

"Descendants of " means who is at the top of the pedigree it is usually the parents or grandparents. In this pedigree were any of the parents affected?

a)

yes, the male

b)

no

c)

yes, female

27.

In this pedigree the red represents what?

a)

a female

b)

a non carrier of the disorder

c)

a carrier of the disorder

d)

a male

28.

How many males and how many females in this pedigree are affected with a genetic disorder? Click 2 answers

a)

5 females

b)

5 males

c)

3 females

d)

4 females

29.

As as woman's age increases, her potential pregnancy issues do as well. What are 2 issues?

a)

the risk of a miscarriage

b)

the risk of longer pregnancy

c)

the risk of disorders

30.

How many babies are born with disorders?

a)

34%

b)

24%

c)

3%

d)

0%

31.

What is the Karyotype process?

a)

Draw out amniotic fluid from the mothers womb, take a picture of the chromosomes, organize them by pairs and size, place them on a Karyotype chart, see if there are any abnormalities, determine gender

b)

Draw out blood from the mothers wrist, take a picture of the DNA, organize them by color, place them on a Karyotype chart, see if there are any abnormalities, determine height

32.

Gender is determined by observing which chromosomes?

a)

18

b)

12

c)

23

d)

21

33.

If you see an extra chromosome on chromosome #21, what disorder will the baby have?

a)

Downs Syndrome

b)

Turners Syndrome

c)

Tay Sachs Syndrome

34.

An extra chromosome is called what?

a)

Nosomy

b)

Bisomy

c)

Trisomy

d)

Monosomy

35.

When missing a chromosome, it is called what?

a)

Monosomy

b)

Lysome

c)

Trisomy

d)

Disomy

36.

Humans have this many chromosomes in every body cell.

a)

40

b)

12

c)

23

d)

46

37.

Humans have this many pairs of chromosomes?

a)

5

b)

10

c)

23

d)

46

38.

Some disorders involve more than one gene such as Heart Disease which happens in how many people?

a)

2 in 1,000

b)

1 in 3

c)

3 in 4

d)

1 in 2

39.

DNA is a detailed set of plans that does what?

a)

allows cells to divide

b)

carries genetic information

c)

carries only 5 traits

40.

DNA stands for what?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

b)

Detoxifyic acid

c)

Dinoacititopia

41.

DNA is a

a)

triple helix

b)

double helix

c)

single helix

42.

DNA resides

a)

in the nucleus of a cell

b)

in the mitochondria of the cell

c)

in the cell wall

d)

in the cytoplasm of a cell

43.

DNA is passed from?

a)

Offspring to parent

b)

Big Chungus to his step child Mini Chungus

c)

parent to offspring

d)

long to short

44.

DNA is unique to each individual living thing, for example you are the only one with your DNA, unless you are a or an ________.

a)

identical twin

b)

hamster

c)

pumpkin

d)

step brother

45.

Before Gregor Mendel's discoveries, how did people believe children obtained characteristics from their parents?

a)

people believed that characteristics were only form the mother and that if a short mom and a tall person reproduced, then a medium person would be the result

b)

form the stork

c)

people believed that characteristics were blended from each parent like mixing 2 colors of paint, and that if a short and tall person reproduced, then a medium person would be the result

46.

Gregor Mendel noticed that characteristics were passed down in humans, but he was not sure how. It was impossible at the time to study this concept using humans, so he used _________________ at first. Because he was a monk, his priest frowned upon the breeding of mice due to the topic of sex. Gregor then decided to use _____________. Why were pea plants a perfect item to use to help Gregor Mendel discover genetics?

a)

rabbits and then carrots

b)

mice and then pea plants

c)

monkeys and then bananas

d)

squirrels and then acorns

47.

When Gregor Mendel bred purple flowered peas with white flowered peas he discovered that he always got purple colored peas. This puzzled him, and after further research he discovered the important concept of what?

a)

processes of evolutionary confinement

b)

prickly pear syndrome

c)

dominant and recessive traits and the punnet square

48.

Gregor decided to use pea plants. Why were pea plants a perfect item to use to help Gregor Mendel discover genetics?

a)

pea plants were easily pollinated by using a soft brush and transferring the pollen from plant to plant, peas have easily observable traits such as flower color and pea texture, peas grow quickly, it was easy to control the breeding of peas

b)

pea plants give off a strong odor attracting bees, pea plants are tall and Gregor was tall, so it made observations easy, pea plants are edible, and Gregor loved to eat peas

49.

When a species environment changes, genetically that species will need to change over time in order for the species to survive. An example is climate change. If an area's temperature on average rises over time, the species will need to adapt to survive higher temperatures, such as develop less fur to survive a hotter environment. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

50.

The greater the genetic diversity within a species, the greater that species’ chances of long-term survival. This is because negative traits (such as inherited diseases or viruses) become widespread within a population if that population does not have diversity. An example would be if trees got a disease and they were all genetically simillar, most of the tree population or all would die. If they have genetic diversity many more will survive. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

51.

Selective breeding, also known as _______________ is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics. Breeders select two parents that have beneficial phenotypic traits to reproduce, yielding offspring with those ______________ traits.​

a)

natural selection, undesired

b)

Artificial selection, desired

52.

Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection, is the opposite of __________________which we learned about in ecology.

We have over the years used the selective breeding process to cross breed plants much like ________________

did with his pea plants. This process has allowed us to breed animals and plants that better suit our needs.

a)

Natural selection, Gregor Mendel

b)

Biometric selection, Charles Darwin

53.

_________________ has been occurring for over 10,000 years and makes use of existing, naturally present gene variants in a species and the natural process of breeding. ___________________(GMO's) have been occurring since the 1970's and involves a direct change to an organism's genome in the laboratory. This creates a controversy and moral debates.

a)

Technology Engineering, Crossbreeding

b)

Selective Breeding, Genetic Engineering

54.

Gender is determined by examining what # chromosome?

a)

8

b)

23

c)

10

55.

What does Monosomy mean?

a)

missing a chromsome

b)

extra chromsome

56.

What does trisomy mean?

a)

missing a chromosome

b)

extra chromosome

57.

Is this Punnett Square correctly filled in?

a)

Yes

b)

No

58.

Is this Punnett Square correctly filled in?

a)

yes

b)

no

59.

Each square in a Punnett Square is what percent?

a)

60 %

b)

45 %

c)

25 %

60.

Is this diagram labeled correctly? Screen shot and study it will be on the test.

a)

yes

b)

no

61.

Which is male which is female?

a)

xx= male xy= female

b)

xx= female xy= Male

62.

This tool used to figure out offspring outcome is called what?

a)

Karyotype

b)

Punnett Square

63.

Since human cells carry two copies of each chromosome they have two versions of each gene. These different versions of a gene are called _____________. Alleles can be either dominant or recessive.

a)

DNA

b)

Alleles

64.

This type of cell division is called what?

a)

meiosis

b)

mitosis

65.

This type of cell division is called what?

a)

Meiosis

b)

Mitosis

66.

In the process of meiosis, the 4 resulting cells are identical or different?

This process is used in making sex cells or body cells such as skin cells?

a)

identical, sex cells

b)

unique, sex cells

67.

The process of Mitosis produces unique or identical cells?


Mitosis is used in making sex cells or body cells such as skin?

a)

identical, body cells

b)

unique, sex cells