2. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

3. Reproduction _________________________ _____________________ ___________________ __________________ _________________ ______________ Click the appropriate dollar amount at right to proceed to the question

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6. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Fifty - Fifty You’ve asked that two of the wrong answers be eliminated, leaving you with one wrong answer plus the correct one. 50/50 Return to the Question

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9. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Traits, heredity Parents passing ___________ to offspring is called __________. Skills, mitosis Chemicals, heredity Traits, mitosis 50/50 A CD B

10. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Only heredity What determines an organism’s characteristics? Only heredity and the environment Heredity, the environment and learning Only the environment A CD B 50/50

11. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Superior athletic ability Which of the following is an example of a learned trait? Superior athletic performance The power of your muscles The size of your muscles A CD B 50/50

12. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Budding, spore formation, and meiosis Which of the following are examples of asexual reproduction? Mitosis, budding, and spore formation Pollination, meiosis, and from body parts Pollination, mitosis, and from body parts A CD B 50/50

13. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Asexually, by budding When fishers caught sea stars, they cut them into pieces and threw them back into the water. The fishers later saw that the sea stars reproduced and made many new sea stars. How did the sea stars reproduce? Sexually, by budding Sexually, from body parts Asexually, from body parts A CD B 50/50

14. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD By studying the cell’s function How can you determine the kind of organism a cell belongs to? By comparing the cell’s shape with the shape of the organism By studying the cell’s DNA By comparing the cell’s size with the size of the organism A CD B 50/50

15. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD As the number of chromosomes increase, size increases What is the relationship between a species’ number of chromosomes and the sizes of individual organisms? There is no relationship? It depends on how may genes each chromosome contains As the number of chromosomes increases, size decreases A CD B 50/50

16. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD One base replaces another What happens when DNA “unzips”? The base pairs change partners One base hops to the other side of the DNA ladder The base pairs come apart A CD B 50/50

17. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD mitosis What process produces sex cells? fertilizationmeiosis splitting A CD B 50/50

18. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Mapping all the genes on a human chromosome What is the Human Genome Project doing? Changing the human chromosome to erase all diseased genes Determining which mutations cause diseases Creating a clone of the human chromosome A CD B 50/50

19. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD A sex cell During fertilization, the first cell of a new organism is called _______ An egg cellA sperm cell A zygote A CD B 50/50

20. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD The pistil In which part of a flowering plant does fertilization occur? The pollen tubeThe ovules The stamen A CD B 50/50

21. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Black A male dog is purebred for the dominant trait of a black coat. A female dog is purebred for the recessive trait of a white coat. What color coat will their offspring have? Gray Half will be black, half will be white White A CD B 50/50

22. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD zygote An organism with one dominant and one recessive version of a trait is called a _________. mutantpurebred hybrid A CD B 50/50

23. Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD 39 If a dog has 78 chromosomes, how may chromosomes will it’s sperm cell have? 15649 78 A CD B 50/50