1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Me oh Mi! I like those Genes You son of a Biological Process ! Dar “win” or Lose Get to Class- ification

2. This is the name given to the type of reproduction of body cells? Ex. Skin cell

3. Mitosis

4. How many cells are produced at the end of mitosis?

5. Two cells

6. How many times do cells divide during meiosis?

7. Two times

8. What is another name given to sex cells?

9. Gametes

10. What kind of cells reproduce through Meiosis?

11. Sex cells (sperm/egg)

12. What do we call the characteristics that we pass on from generation to generation?

13. Traits

14. What is the name given to a trait that overtakes the other?

15. Dominant

16. If an organism is represented by the following: Hh, the organism is said to be the following genotype…

17. Heterozygous

18. If a homozygous dominant parent is crossed with a homozygous recessive parent, what are the chances of producing a homozygous recessive child?

19. Zero (0%)=All would be heterozygous Aa A aaaa

20. Study the following pedigree: What is the genotype of the mother?

21. Heterozygous (Carrier)

22. In what part of the cell is DNA found?

23. In the nucleus

24. What is the main job of DNA?

25. To make proteins

26. What does DNA stand for?

27. Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

28. What kind of RNA sequence would be formed if a DNA sequence reads: AAGC?

29. UUCG

30. What do we call a combination of 3 letters in mRNA? Ex. UUA

31. Codon

32. In what country are the Galapagos islands found in?

33. Ecuador

34. What is evolution?

35. Change of organisms over time

36. According to Darwin, those organisms that can survive a selective pressure placed by the environment are the ones that are best adapted an survive long enough to reproduce. This is called what kind of survival?

37. “The survival of the fittest”

38. What is the name of the chart used to represent evolutionary relationships among organisms?

39. Cladogram

40. Name three things that can be used by scientists as evidence for evolution:

41. DNA, fossils(Lucy), Homologous(physical) structures

42. What is the name given to the human species?

43. Homo sapiens

44. What is the taxa that comes before Order?

45. Class

46. Name the 5 kingdoms

47. Animal, Plant, Fungi, Bacteria, Protist

48. Organisms that are able to reproduce, and produce fertile offspring are said to be members of the same…

49. Species

50. What Family do humans belong to? (hint: part of the same family of an individual named after a Beatles’ song )

51. Hominidae