1. Protein Synthesis Scavenger Hunt
Review Questions & Answers

2. Sponagle
Question: Traits that are carried on the X chromosome are said to be ______?
Answer: Sex-linked

3. Sponagle
Question: Blood type alleles A&B are said to follow this inheritance pattern.
Answer: Co-dominance

4. Richardson
Question: Type of bond that forms between nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Answer: Hydrogen

5. Richardson
Question: Type of RNA that carries the DNA code out of the nucleus.
Answer: Messenger RNA or mRNA

6. Taney
Question: He was the “Father of Genetics”
Answer: Mendel

7. Taney
Question: The allele that is masked by another is said to be_______.
Answer: Recessive

8. Nurse’s office
Question: The sugar found in RNA
Answer: Ribose

9. Nurse’s office
Question: Chromosomes are made up of DNA wrapped around proteins called ________.
Answer: Histones

10. Guidance office
Question: Chromosomes that are the same shape, size, and carry the genes for the same trait but are NOT identical.
Answer: Homologous chromsomes

11. Guidance office
Question: The physical appearance that an organism inherits.
Answer: Phenotype

12. Neumaier
Question: Sodium and potassium travel across the cell membrane via protein channels and require energy to go against the concentration gradient. What type of transport is this an example of?
Answer: Active Transport

13. Neumaier
Question: The movement of water down the concentration gradient is called _________.
Answer: Osmosis

14. Breden
Question: Phase of the cell cycle where the number of chromosomes doubles
Answer: Interphase-(S-phase)

15. Breden
Question: After meiosis, each human gamete has _____ number of chromosomes.
Answer: 23

16. Brown
Question: The organelle responsible for converting light energy into chemical energy.
Answer: Chloroplast

17. Brown
Question: In the equation for cellular respiration, what are the 2 reactants?
Answer: Glucose & oxygen

18. Walmer Question: The monomer of proteins is _______?
Answer: amino acids

19. Walmer
Question: This element is found in ALL organic compounds because of its ability to form 4 covalent bonds.
Answer: Carbon

20. Reichley
Question: Water’s ability to stick to other water molecules produces surface tension. What is this property of water?
Answer: Cohesion

21. Reichley
Question: What property of water explains why ice floats in water?
Answer: Less dense as a solid than a liquid (volume increases D=m/v)

22. Hummel
Question: Name the organelle(s) that both prokaryotes and eukaryotes BOTH share.
Answer: Ribosomes or cell membrane

23. Hummel
Question: Bacteria are an example of what type of cell? (Hint they have no membrane bound organelles)
Answer: Prokaryote

24. Fulmer
Question: Programmed cell death or “Cell Suicide” is called ________?
Answer: Apoptosis

25. Fulmer
Question: This organelle is responsible for breaking down worn out organelles, food bacteria, etc.
Answer: lysosomes

26. Cardi
Question: Term used to describe the head of phospholipids which are “water loving”
Answer: Hydrophillic

27. Cardi
Question: Term used to describe the tails of a phospholipid which are “water fearing”.
Answer: Hydrophobic

28. ISS
Question: When chromosomes fail to separate during Anaphase I or II of meiosis.
Answer: Nondisjunction

29. ISS Question: Two sister chromatids are held together at this point.
Answer: Centromere