Biology Jeopardy Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12 & 13Chapter 14Chapter 15 & 16 Final Jeopardy

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Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The name for a form of a gene QUESTION: Allele

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: Describe a heterozygote using the letter “A” QUESTION: Aa

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The diagram used to predict genetic outcomes QUESTION: Punnett square

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: Number of cells resulting from meiosis QUESTION: 4

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The term given to a cell that has only one set of chromosomes QUESTION: haploid

Question Answer ANSWER: There are three components of DNA…phosphate and nitrogen base are two. QUESTION: Deoxyribose Chapter

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The base that would match with cytosine. QUESTION: guanine

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The shape of deoxyribonucleic acid. QUESTION: Double Helix

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The molecule that carries the genetic message from the nucleus. QUESTION: mRNA

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The name for the process in which proteins are made from the genetic information found on mRNA. QUESTION: Translation

Question Answer Chapter 12 & ANSWER: Hair color is an example of this type of inheritance. QUESTION: Polygenic Inheritance

Question Answer Chapter 12 & ANSWER: A trait controlled by a gene on the X chromosome. QUESTION: Sex-linked trait

Question Answer Chapter 12 & ANSWER: The name of the project that mapped all the genes in the human body. QUESTION: Human Genome Project

Question Answer Chapter 12 & ANSWER: The genetic disease caused by trisomy 21 QUESTION: Down syndrome

Question Answer Chapter 12 & ANSWER: The name of the molecule from bacteria that can be used to cut DNA QUESTION: Restriction Enzyme

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: How old, according to the geologic time scale, is the earth? QUESTION: 4.6 billion years old

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: Evidence of life. QUESTION: Fossil

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: If rock layers have not been disturbed, determining the date of a fossil based on the layer in which it is found can be done using this technique. QUESTION: Relative Dating

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: The theory that nonliving material can produce life? QUESTION: Spontaneous generation

Question Answer Chapter ANSWER: An organelle thought to be a descendent from prokaryotes according to the endosimbiont theory. QUESTION: Chloroplast or Mitochondira.

Question Answer Chapter 15 & ANSWER: Author of the book “On the Origin of Species” QUESTION: Charles Darwin

Question Answer Chapter 15 & ANSWER: The wing of a bird, butterfly, and bat are all examples of this type of structure. QUESTION: Analogous structures

Question Answer Chapter 15 & ANSWER: This primate is believed by some to be a link between apes and humans QUESTION: Australopithicus

Question Answer Chapter 15 & ANSWER: Two structures that must change in order for an organism to become bipedal. QUESTION: Pelvis and Cranium

Question Answer Chapter 15 & ANSWER: The way in which humans may have got to North America. QUESTION: Bering Straight

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Oldest hominid species to be unearthed. QUESTION: Australopithicus africanus