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Bio Unit 4 AOS1

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

what type of mutation is this?

A mutation affecting only one or very few nucleotides in a gene sequence.

a)

nonsense mutation

b)

frameshift mutation

c)

point mutation

d)

missense mutation

2.

true or false?

inversion occurs when a chromosome breaks in 3 or more places and the resulting piece of DNA is reversed and re-inserted into a chromosome.

a)

true

b)

false

3.

_______ occur when a chromosome breaks and some of the genetic material is lost.

a)

deletion

b)

inversion

c)

duplication

d)

translocation

4.

true or false?

Gene flow is also called Gene migration.

a)

true

b)

false

5.

______ is when a species goes though an event that suddenly and significantly reduces its population.

a)

evolution

b)

founder effect

c)

bottleneck effect

d)

extinction

6.

what is Allopatric speciation?

a)

related organisms that share common characteristics and ancestors

b)

physically separated through geographic isolation

c)

the formation of new and distant species in the course of evolution

7.

what is relative dating?

a)

the history of all fossils

b)

how people date in Toolangi

c)

comparing fossils to other rocks and fossils believed to be of a similar age

8.

How may different types of fossils are there?

a)

6

b)

5

c)

3

d)

7

9.

what is a Punnet square?

a)

a board game

b)

a weird looking square

c)

a square that makes puns

d)

a way of figuring out genotypes and phenotypes

10.

______ is the frequency with which a gene changes from the wild-type to a specific mutant.

a)

amino acid sequence

b)

mutation rate

c)

molecular clock

d)

DNA hybridization

11.

what is Amino acid sequence ?

a)

the arrangement of amino acids in a protein

b)

the arrangement of amino acids in an enzyme

c)

the arrangement of amino acids in a brain cell

d)

the arrangement of amino acids in a plant cell