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6. Reproductive cells that transmit genes from generation to the next. A 100

7. What are gametes? A 100

8. The body cells of an organism. A 200

9. What are somatic cells? A 200

10. Chromosomes that carry the genes for the same traits A 300

11. What are homologues (homologous chromosomes)? A 300

12. Chromosomes that do not determine gender. A 400

13. What are autosomes? A 400

14. In plants and algae, produced by haploid cells dividing mitotically. A 500

15. What is a gametophyte? A 500

16. Alternative versions of genes B 100

17. What are alleles? B 100

18. An organism ’ s expressed physical trait B 200

19. What is phenotype? B 200

20. According to a 19 th Century monk, the two alleles for a trait separate during gamete formation and each allele has an equal chance of going to an offspring B 300

21. What is Mendel ’ s Law of Segregation? B 300

22. The crossing of a recessive homozygote with a second organism expressing the dominant phenotype to determine the second organisms genotype. B 400

23. What is a test cross? B 400

24. Explains why the alleles for pea color separate completely independently from the alleles for pea plant height during gamete formation. B 500

25. What is Mendel ’ s “ Law of Independent Assortment ” ? B 500

26. Two of these form between adenine and thymine and three between cytosine and guanine. C 100

27. What are hydrogen bonds? C 100

28. These enzymes catalyze the lengthening of a DNA strand one nucleotide at a time. C 200

29. What are DNA polymerases? C 200

30. During transcription, only this DNA strand is transcribed. C 300

31. What is the template strand? C 300

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33. These separate pieces are the result of synthesis along the lagging DNA strand and are sealed together by DNA ligase. C 400

34. What are Okazaki fragments? C 400

35. The short RNA piece that is used to start DNA replication.. C 500

36. What is a primer? C 500

37. The end result of meiosis. D 100

38. What are four daughter cells? D 100

39. Homologues pair up during Prophase I, forming this structure. D 200

40. What is a tetrad? D 200

41. This exchange of homologous parts of two non-sister chromatids further increases variation in reproduction. D 300

42. What is “ crossing over ” ? D 300

43. Chromosomes are moved toward opposite ends of the cell but the chromatids stay connected. D 400

44. What is Anaphase I? D 400

45. Results from failure of homologous chromosomes to separate in Meiosis I or sister- chromatids to separate in Meiosis II. D 500

46. What is nondisjunction? D 500

47. The “ writing ” of RNA from the DNA in the nucleus E 100

48. What is transcription? E 100

49. Large pieces of newly made mRNA are removed. E 200

50. What is RNA splicing? E 200

51. The pieces of RNA that are spliced out of a eukaryotes mRNA. E 300

52. What are introns? E 300

53. Larger than their counterparts in prokaryotes, their RNA is made in the nucleus. E 400

54. What are ribosomes? E 400

55. Along with a poly-A-tail, this is added to the transcribed RNA.. E 500

56. What is a 5 ’ cap? E 500

57. Viruses that infect bacteria. F 100

58. What are phages (bacteriophages)? F 100

59. In this virus life cycle, the virus DNA is incorporated into the host DNA and does NOT break open the host cell. F 200

60. What is a lysogenic cycle? F 200

61. Misfolded infectious proteins that cause normal proteins to misfold. F 300

62. What are prions? F 300

63. The alteration of a bacteria ’ s genotype by the uptake of naked, foreign DNA. F 400

64. What is transformation? F 400

65. Made of an operator, promoter and the genes they control. F 500

66. What is an operon? F 500

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68. A change to the DNA that causes the mRNA to be read incorrectly. Click on screen to continue

69. What is a frameshift mutation. Click on screen to continue

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