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LSC 347 Exam #1, Chapter 1 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 ________. - Answer- diploid; 2n Genetics is the study of heredity and variation. -...

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LSC 347 Exam #1, Chapter 1
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 ________. - Answer- diploid; 2n

Genetics is the study of heredity and variation. - Answer- True

What is the term given to the theory that put forth the idea that living organisms could
arise by incubating nonliving components? - Answer- spontaneous generation

What is the term given to the theory which states that the fertilized egg contains a
complete miniature adult? - Answer- preformation

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? - Answer- Gregor Mendel

In the 1600s, William Harvey studied reproduction and development. What is the
term given to the theory which states that an organism develops from the fertilized
egg by a succession of developmental events that lead to an adult? - Answer-
epigenesis

Complementarity in a genetic sense refers to the polymerization of nucleotides in
DNA. - Answer- False

Bioinformatics is a discipline involved in the development of hardware and software
for processing, storing, and retrieving nucleotide and protein data. - Answer- True

Genetics is the study of ________. - Answer- inheritance and variation

Who, along with Alfred Wallace, formulated the theory of natural selection? -
Answer- Charles Darwin

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