BIO1610 GENETICS EXAM NEWEST

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BIO1610 GENETICS EXAM NEWEST

ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS

AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

Question: What is the amount of energy required to raise the

temperature of 1 gram of a substance (which might not be water) by one degree Celsius called?

ANSWER: Specific Heat

Question: Which of the following may be an example of X-

linked inheritance in human males?

ANSWER: the higher incidence of hemophilia in males than

females

Question: What is the distance between linked genes, which is

not an absolute, standardized unit of measurement but is relative and represents a 1% chance of recombination, called?

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ANSWER: Map Unit

Question: What are fragments of DNA from two different

species, such as bacterium and mammal, spliced together in a laboratory to create one single molecule called?

ANSWER: Recombination DNA

Question: Where does transcription occur in eukaryotes?

ANSWER: Nucleus

Question: Where does translation always begin?

ANSWER: Cytosol

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Question: What is the assembly of a protein on the ribosomes,

using mRNA to specify the order of amino acids, called?

ANSWER: Translation

Question: Where do coupled transcription and translation occur?

ANSWER: Prokaryotic Cells

Question: What are the smaller DNA pieces called that the

lagging strand is synthesized as?

ANSWER: Okazaki Fragments

Question: What are edited off the primary transcript in

eukaryotes?

ANSWER: Introns

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Question: What microevolutionary mechanism is usually

associated with small population size?

ANSWER: Genetic Drift

Question: Assuming complete dominance, how could you

determine the unknown genotype of a dominant phenotype individual?

ANSWER: Testcross

Question: When looking at Morgan's crosses, what term did we

use to indicate the most common phenotype found in nature for any given character?

ANSWER: Wild Type

Question: What are Francis Crick's three contributions to

biology and genetics?