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Brooker R. Ch. 8

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an organism that contains two or more sets of chromosomes from two or more species called?

a)

Allodiploid

b)

Allotetraploid

c)

Allopolyploid

2.

A process that involves a change in the direction of the genetic material along a single chromosome.

a)

Inversion

b)

Duplication

c)

Translocation

d)

Deficiency

3.

Insert a word:

When a heterokaryon goes through nuclear fusion it produces a ______ with a single nucleus.

a)

heterokaryon

b)

heterosis

c)

hybrid cell

d)

parthenogenesis

4.

Which of these pictures is an example of mosaicism?

a)
b)
c)
d)
5.

What are specialized repeated sequences of DNA that are found at the ends of normal chromosomes, which tend to prevent translocations called?

a)

Gene duplication

b)

Paralogs

c)

Pericentric inversion

d)

Telomeres

6.

A _____ is the region of a chromosome connecting the two centromeres.

a)

dicentric bridge

b)

translocation cross

c)

semisterility

d)

meiotic nondisjunction

7.

What do you do if you want to determine if cancer cells have changes in chromosome structure?

a)

Paracentric inversion

b)

Comparative genomic hybridization

c)

Gene duplication

d)

Genetic cross

8.

How do you call a form of structural variation in which a segment of DNA exhibits copy number differences among members of the same species?

a)

Comparative genomic hybridization

b)

Parthenogenesis

c)

Copy number variation

d)

Nondisjunction

9.

How else could you call these homologous globin genes in humans?

a)

Telomeres

b)

Paralogs

c)

Homologs

d)

Triploids

10.

Which of these chromosomes is acrocentric?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4