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Michael Cummings A+
Chapter 1 Introduction to Genetics
1) In the 1600s, William Harvey studied reproduction and development. What is the term
given to the theory that states that an organism develops from the fertilized egg by a succession
of developmental events that lead to an adult?
A) preformation
B) sequential pattern formation
C) equational transformation
D) transduction
E) epigenesis Answer: E Section: 1.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
2) What is the term given to the theory that states that the fertilized egg contains a complete
miniature adult?
A) preformation
B) transduction
C) transformation
D) conjugation
E) cell theory Answer: A Section: 1.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
3) What is the term given to the theory that put forth the idea that living organisms could
arise by incubating nonliving components?
A) spontaneous generation
B) natural selection
C) evolution
D) preformation
E) collective combination Answer: A
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Section: 1.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
4) What is a homunculus?
A) a large cyst or growth on a plant due to viral infection
B) a sperm or egg containing a miniature adult, perfect in size and proportion
C) the intermediate stage of the DNA after CRISPR-Cas treatment
D) when the mitochondrion grows in size before splitting into two via fission
E) during development sometimes a growing individual's cell can become mutated and one
part of the child has different characteristics than the other
Answer: B Section: 1.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
5) Who, along with Alfred Wallace, formulated the theory of natural selection?
A) Gregor Mendel
B) William Harvey
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Charles Darwin
E) James Watson Answer: D Section: 1.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
6) Who was the Augustinian monk that conducted a decade of experiments on the garden
pea, eventually showing that traits are passed from parents to offspring in predictable ways?
A) Francis Crick
B) Alfred Wallace
C) Hippocrates
D) Aristotle
E) Gregor Mendel Answer: E Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
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7) In many species, there are two representatives of each chromosome. In such species, the
characteristic number of chromosomes is called the number. It is usually symbolized as
.
A) haploid; n
B) haploid; 2n
C) diploid; 2n
D) diploid; n
E) monoploid; n Answer: C Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
8) Genetics is the study of .
A) inheritance and variation
B) mutation and recession
C) transcription and translation
D) diploid and haploid
E) replication and recombination Answer: A
Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
9) Early in the twentieth century, Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri noted that the behavior
of chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation.
They proposed that genes are carried on chromosomes, which led to the basis of the .
A) Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
B) Law of Segregation
C) Law of Independent Assortment
D) First Law of Thermodynamics
E) Chromosomal Maintenance Theory Answer: A
Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
10) What is a mutation?
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A) an inherited change in a DNA sequence
B) the source of all genetic variation
C) a change in DNA that leads to death
D) an inherited change in DNA sequences that is the source of all genetic variation
E) an inherited changed in DNA sequence that is always bad for an organism Answer: D
Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
11) Which of the following is TRUE about alleles?
A) An allele is a variant form of a gene.
B) Alleles come in two forms, the good form and the bad form.
C) Individuals carry both forms of each allele.
D) The phenotype of the individual will always indicate with certainty the alleles of the
individual.
E) An individual will only carry one version of an allele. Answer: A
Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
12) Until the mid-1940s, many scientists considered proteins to be the likely candidates for
the genetic material. Which of the following characteristics led scientist to believe DNA was
NOT the genetic material?
A) DNA is more stable than protein.
B) DNA is less abundant than protein.
C) DNA has less variation than protein.
D) Protein can fold into may shapes.
E) DNA is less abundant than protein and DNA has less variation than protein. Answer: E
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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
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