Exam 2: Done In Class 11/20

  • Due Nov 20, 2019 at 11:59pm
  • Points 35
  • Questions 35
  • Time Limit None

Instructions

Study Guide for Exam 2

Chapter 6

  • Know when chromosomes are duplicated in the cell cycle
  • Know the advantages of sexual reproduction
  • Know the cell-cycle events in binary fission
  • Know that proto-oncogenes code for a positive cell cycle regulator
  • Know when chromosomes become visible with a light microscope
  • Know when sister chromatids separate
  • Know that FtsZ proteins direct the cell to make a septum that makes the cell walls.

Chapter 7

  • Know what is caused by the genotype XXY
  • Know why aneuploidies (look in book) can be bad for the individual
  • Know that X inactivation causes abnormalities in X chromosomes to be milder than those in autosomes
  • Know how meiosis is similar to mitosis
  • Know that alternation of generations is a life cycle is both haploid and diploid in multicellular stages
  • Know when in meiosis sister chromatids are separated
  • Know how many daughter cells meiosis produces

Chapter 8

  • Know that by doing a test cross, you can identify dominant individuals for a trait
  • Know what observable traits are known as (glossary)
  • Understand Genotype and Phenotype
  • Know what would happen if a homozygous red-eyed fruit fly was crossed with a homozygous white-eyed fruit fly
  • Know what cytosine pairs with 
  • Know what combinations of genes could be contributed by an individual that is: AaBb
  • Know the difference between heterozygous and homozygous

Chapter 9

  • Know what post-translational control is
  • Identify the types of bonds that hold each strand of DNA together
  • Know the initial mechanism for repairing nucleotide errors is
  • Identify the enzyme is responsible for adding nucleotides to a growing DNA chain during replication
  • Know what a promoter is.
  • Know what model shows DNA replication
  • Know what shape chromosomes are in eukaryotes (double-stranded linear) and in prokaryotes (double-stranded circular)

Chapter 10

  • Know what Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace BOTH discovered
  • Know what genomics in agriculture is used for
  • Know that a plasmid carries a gene from an organism to a bacteria cell
  • Understand that Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a vector used to move genes in the production of transgenic plants
  • Know what kinds of diseases are studied using genome-wide association studies
  • Know that there are ethical concerns in genome sequencing
  • Know that body cells are used in reproductive cloning
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