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Biology
10th Grade
06/06/2012

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Biology is the study of...
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life.
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The four characteristics of living things are...
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Organization, development, adaptations, and reproduction.
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The SI measurement for volume is...
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liters.
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An independent variable is...
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a variable that is not dependent on any other variables or factors.
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During the course of reaction enzymes...
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are not changed and not used up.
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Carbon is able to form...
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chains, rings, and macromolecules.
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The thin flexible barrier around an animal cell is the...
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Cell membrane.
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The (blank) is responsible for providing energy to the cell.
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Mitochondria.
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What structure in a cell can be compared with a hard drive in a computer?
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The Cell Nucleus.
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Water enters and leaves a cell by...
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osmosis.
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What type of osmosis can cause a cell to burst?
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Hypotonic
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D
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Diffusion is the movement of particles from...
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an area of high concentration to low concentration.
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The backbone of a DNA molecule is made of...
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phosphate and deoxyribose sugars.
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In DNA Adenine can only bond to...
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Thymine.
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DNA makes RNA and RNA makes...
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proteins.
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When do chromosomes become visible in the cell cycle?
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During Cell division.
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What are all the phases in the mitosis?
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interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis
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A cell copies its DNA during...
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Interphase.
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The main light energy trapping pigment molecule in plants is...
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Chlorophyll.
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Energy from sunlight is trapped by chlorophyll located in the...
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thylakoid membranes.
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Energy is released from ATP when the bond is broken between...
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two phosphate groups.
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The gas given off from a plant during photosynthesis is...
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oxygen.
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The equation for cellular respiration is...
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60^2+C^6H^12O^6 + CO^2+6H^2O+Energy
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The rule of dominance says...
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one form of a trait can mask another.
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The results of a punnet square represent...
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the possible results of a given cross, or the alleles an offspring can inherit.
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Cells containing two alleles for each trait are described as ...
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diploid cells.
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A female guinea pig with black fur color has the genotype BB. She is mated with a male homozygous for white for color (bb). Their offspring would probably be...
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all black guinea pigs.
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How many divisions are involved in meiosis?
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two
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Tetrads line up along the equator of the cell in...
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Metaphase I
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Homologous chromosomes separate during...
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anaphase II.
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In the following cross, Aa x Aa, what is the GENOTYPIC ratio of the offspring?
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1AA: 2Aa:1aa
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In a cell where n=2, how many chromosomes will present in the gamete?
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Two
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A cross between a red flower and a white flower that results in a pink flower is an example of...
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co-dominance.
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The human blood groups are an example of...
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multiple alleles.
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The 23rd pair of chromosomes (XY) in males and (XX) in females are called...
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sex chromosomes.
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Because the gene for a red-green color blindness s located on the X chromosome, it is not possible for...
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a color blind father to pass the trait onto his son.
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Eye color in humans is the result of ____ inheritance?
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(polygenic (continuous variation)
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A child is diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. Neither parent has the disease. How might the child have inherited the disorder?
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The disorder is recessive and carried by both parents.
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A disorder that results from a dominant allele must have how many dominant alleles present in the parents?
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One
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What disorder can be detected by karyotyping?
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Downsyndrome Disorder or Trisomy 21
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A human genetic disorder caused by a dominate gene is...
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Huntington's Disease
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A color blind man (XbY) and a carrier woman (X B X b) have a daughter. What is the chance that she will be colorblind?
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50%
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Two parents are carriers for sickle cell anemia. What is the chance that they will have an affected child?
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25%
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A man with blood type AO marries a woman with bloody type BO. The chance that their first child will have a type OO blood is...
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25%
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What are possible genotypes that could result from the follow cross?
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AO++Xab—(ab+-)
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Both hemophilia and red-green color blindness are...
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both sex-linked conditions.
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Down Syndrome and Klinefeltser’s Syndrome are both examples of...
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Trisomy disorders.
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Gel electrophoresis is a technique used to...
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separate DNA fragments.
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What is the technique that can find and copy a gene?
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polymerase chain reaction techniques.
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What is the function of restriction enzymes?
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To cut DNA at specific sequences
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What is an example of one of the six kingdoms?
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Plants, Animals, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Fungi, Protists.
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The purpose of a dichotomous key is to...
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properly identify organisms and sort organisms into categories.
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