Exam Review: Ch. 3 & 4

What do geneticists use to represent alleles?

ATP means energy.

When cytokinesis is complete, each daughter cell has the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell

The body cells of humans contain 46 chromosomes that form 23 pairs.

acquired traits ARE carried by genes or passed to the offspring.

Cells end up with half the number of chromosomes as body cells by going through?

What does every living thing need to survive?

Chromosomes consist of 2 rod-like structures called?

Within the nucleus, DNA and proteins form threadlike structures called?

A specific characteristics such as height or eye color is called a?

What is an energy-releasing process that does not require oxygen?

Which is the period before cell division?

Polygenic inheritance is were each controlled by a single gene.

In Mendel’s cross for stem height,how many alleles did the purebred tall plants in the P generation have for tall stems?

A new organism begins to form when egg and sperm cells join in this process called?

Who is an American geneticist who studied the cells of grasshoppers.

Height, Weight, and Skin color are examples of polygenic traits.

A plant may inherit two alleles for tall stems, two alleles for short stems, or one of each.

Which is NOT a function of cell division?

Which organism has two separate alleles for a trait?

The process by which cells obtain energy from glucose is called?

Cell division allows organisms to grow larger and helps heal broken bones.

Which one is NOT a phase of the cell cycle?

Chlorophyll act like ____________ in solar-powered items?

Filial comes from filia & filius which are the Latin words for?

Which is the final stage of the cell cycle?

What is the dominant alleles symbol represented with?

Meiosis is the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half as sex cells form.

The cell makes an exact copy of the DNA in its nucleus in a process called?

What is the recessive alleles symbol represented with?

An organism's traits are controlled by the alleles it inherits from?

Who is known as the "Father of Genetics?"

Genes do not control traits.

The fertilized egg that formed had how many chromosomes?

Which is NOT a complex pattern of inheritance?

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration are known as opposite processes.

Chromosomes are made up of many?

Describes the factor that control the trait?

What is the name of a chart that shows all the possible ways that alleles can combine in a gentic cross?

What is the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring called?

Homozygous is an organism that has two different alleles for a trait.

What causes that painful sensation in your arms and legs after running or working out?

The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo?

occurs when one allele is only partially dominant?

What are the different forms of a gene?

What is an organism’s physical appearance or visible traits called?

Obtains energy by breaking down dead plant and animal matter, realeasing nutrients back into the environment?

Which one is NOT a phase of Mitosis?

How many pairs did the fertilized eggs exist in?

means that three or more possible alleles determine the trait.

The process by which cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food is called?

How many genes do your body cells contain?

Glucose is another name for energy.

What are the two stages by which photosynthesis happens?

occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed equally?

The main pigment for photosynthesis in chloroplasts is?

Probability predicts what will ABSOLUTELY occur EVERY TIME

Stage 2 of cellular respiration requires very little energy.

An organism can only inherit one allele for a gene-one from a parent

During the cell cycle, a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides into two new cells, which are called?

A series of events in which an organism eat another and obtains energy is called?

Each chromosome comes from the?

What is the scientific study of heredity?

Oxygen is NOT involved in stage 1 of cellular respiration.

A Purebred organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait.

Mendel was the 3rd scientist to recognize that the principles of probability can predict the results of genetic crosses.

What is the main pigment for photosynthesis in chloroplasts?

Which is NOT an Aquired trait?

All Living things carry out cellular respiration continuosly.

A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur?

An organism's genetic makeup or trait?

Where does stage 2 of cellular respiration occur?