Traits: Character
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physical appearance
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Genetic makeup
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1) What do we mean when we use the terms monohybrid cross and front 28
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cross?
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When crossing an organism that is homozygous recessive for
a single trait with a heterozygote, what is the chance of
producing an offspring with the homozygous recessive
phenotype?
Answer: C
A) 0%
B) 25%
C) 50% 50%
D) 75%
E) 100%
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Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a recessive human disorder in which an individual
cannot appropriately metabolize a particular amino acid. The amino acid is
not otherwise produced by humans. Therefore, the most efficient and
effective treatment is which of the following? Answer: C
A) Feed them the substrate that can be metabolized into this amino acid.
B) Transfuse the patients with blood from unaffected donors.
C) Regulate the diet of the affected persons to severely limit the uptake of Regulate the diet of the affected persons to
the amino acid.
D) Feed the patients the missing enzymes in a regular cycle, such as twice severely limit the uptake of the amino acid
per week.
E) Feed the patients an excess of the missing product.
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An obstetrician knows that one of her patients is a pregnant
woman whose fetus is at risk for a serious disorder that is
detectable biochemically in fetal cells. The obstetrician
would most reasonably offer which of the following Answer: C
procedures to her patient?
A) CVS
B) ultrasound imaging
C) amniocentesis
amniocentesis
D) blood transfusion
E) X-ray
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A) Recessive genotypes for each of two genes (aabb) results in an albino Answer: C
corn snake.
B) The allele b17 produces a dominant phenotype, although b1 through b16
do not. In rabbits and many other mammals, one
C) In rabbits and many other mammals, one genotype (cc) prevents any fur
color from developing. genotype (cc) prevents any fur color from
D) In Drosophila (fruit flies), white eyes can be due to an X-linked gene or
to a combination of other genes. developing.
E) In cacti, there are several genes for the type of spines.
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This a map of four genes on a
chromosome (See Image)
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Black fur in mice (B) is dominant to brown fur (b). Short
tails (T) are dominant to long tails (t). What fraction of the
progeny of crosses BbTt × BBtt will be expected to have
black fur and long tails? Answer: D
A) 1/16
B) 3/16
C) 3/8
1/2
D) 1/2
E) 9/16
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The following question refer to the pedigree chart in Figure back 46
14.2 for a family, some of whose members exhibit the
dominant trait, W. Affected individuals are indicated by a
dark square or circle. Answer: C
40) What is the genotype of individual II-5?
A) WW
B) Ww ww
C) ww
D) WW or ww
E) ww or Ww
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Which of the following is true of aneuploidies in general?
A) A monosomy is more frequent than a trisomy.
B) 45 X is the only known human live-born monosomy. Answer: B
C) Some human aneuploidies have selective advantage in
some environments.
D) Of all human aneuploidies, only Down syndrome is 45 X is the only known human live-born
associated with mental retardation. monosomy
E) An aneuploidy resulting in the deletion of a chromosome
segment is less serious than a duplication.
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A couple has a child with Down syndrome. The mother is 39 years old at the
time of delivery. Which of the following is the most probable cause of the
child's condition?
A) The woman inherited this tendency from her parents.
Answer: D
B) One member of the couple carried a translocation.
C) One member of the couple underwent nondisjunction in somatic cell
production.
One member of the couple underwent
D) One member of the couple underwent nondisjunction in gamete
production.
nondisjunction in gamete production
E) The mother had a chromosomal duplication.
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) Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs, the pancreas, the digestive
system, and other organs, resulting in symptoms ranging
from breathing difficulties to recurrent infections. Which of
the following terms best describes this?
Answer: C
A) incomplete dominance
B) multiple alleles
C) pleiotropy pleiotropy
D) epistasis
E) codominance
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The pedigree in Figure 15.3 shows
the transmission of a trait in a
particular family. Based on this
pattern of transmission, the trait is Answer: A
most likely
A) mitochondrial.
B) autosomal recessive.
C) sex-linked dominant.
D) sex-linked recessive.
mitochondrial
E) autosomal dominant.
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When crossing an organism that is homozygous recessive for
a single trait with a heterozygote, what is the chance of
producing an offspring with the homozygous recessive
phenotype?
Answer: C
A) 0%
B) 25%
C) 50% 50%
D) 75%
E) 100%
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Males are more often affected by sex-linked traits than females because
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SRY is best described in which of the following ways?
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What is a syndrome?
A) a characteristic facial appearance Answer: C
B) a group of traits, all of which must be present if an
aneuploidy is to be diagnosed
C) a group of traits typically found in conjunction with a a group of traits typically found in
particular chromosomal aberration or gene mutation conjunction with a particular chromosomal
D) a characteristic trait usually given the discoverer's name
E) a characteristic that only appears in conjunction with one aberration or gene mutation
specific aneuploidy
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Which of the following is the best statement of the use of the addition rule
of probability?
A) the probability that two or more independent events will both occur
Answer: C
B) the probability that two or more independent events will both occur in the
offspring of one set of parents
C) the probability that either one of two independent events will occur
the probability that either one of two
D) the probability of producing two or more heterozygous offspring
E) the likelihood that a trait is due to two or more meiotic events
independent events will occur
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Gene S controls the sharpness of spines in a type of cactus. Cactuses 65
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the dominant allele, S, have sharp spines, whereas homozygous recessive ss
cactuses have dull spines. At the same time, a second gene, N, determines
whether or not cactuses have spines. Homozygous recessive nn cactuses
have no spines at all.
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Humanoids on the newly explored planet Brin (in a hypothetical galaxy in
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many very different plants and animals.
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An ideal procedure for fetal testing in humans would have which of the
following features? Answer: A
A) the procedure that can be performed at the earliest time in the pregnancy
B) lowest risk procedure that would provide the most reliable information
C) the procedure that can test for the greatest number of traits at once the procedure that can be performed at the
D) a procedure that provides a three-dimensional image of the fetus
E) a procedure that could test for the carrier status of the fetus earliest time in the pregnancy
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cross?
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Which of the following is the meaning of the chromosome theory of
inheritance as expressed in the early 20th century?
Answer: B
A) Individuals inherit particular chromosomes attached to genes.
B) Mendelian genes are at specific loci on the chromosome and in turn
segregate during meiosis. Mendelian genes are at specific loci on the
C) Homologous chromosomes give rise to some genes and crossover
chromosomes to other genes. chromosome and in turn segregate during
D) No more than a single pair of chromosomes can be found in a healthy
normal cell. meiosis.
E) Natural selection acts on certain chromosome arrays rather than on genes.
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Gene S controls the sharpness of spines in a type of cactus. Cactuses 75
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the dominant allele, S, have sharp spines, whereas homozygous recessive ss
cactuses have dull spines. At the same time, a second gene, N, determines
whether or not cactuses have spines. Homozygous recessive nn cactuses Answer: A
have no spines at all.
62) A cross between a true-breeding sharp-spined cactus and a spineless A cross between a true-breeding sharp-
cactus would produce
A) all sharp-spined progeny. spined cactus and a spineless cactus would
B) 50% sharp-spined, 50% dull-spined progeny.
C) 25% sharp-spined, 50% dull-spined, 25% spineless progeny. produce
D) all spineless progeny.
E) It is impossible to determine the phenotypes of the progeny.
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Which of the following does not occur in prokaryotic back 82
eukaryotic gene expression, but does in eukaryotic gene
expression?
A) mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA are transcribed. Answer: C
B) RNA polymerase binds to the promoter.
C) A poly-A tail is added to the 3' end of an mRNA and a
cap is added to the 5' end. A poly-A tail is added to the 3' end of an
D) Transcription can begin as soon as translation has begun mRNA and a cap is added to the 5' end.
even a little.
E) RNA polymerase requires a primer to elongate the
molecule.
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There are 61 mRNA codons that specify an amino acid, but only 45 tRNAs.
This is best explained by the fact that
A) some tRNAs have anticodons that recognize four or more different
codons.
Answer: B
B) the rules for base pairing between the third base of a codon and tRNA are
flexible.
C) many codons are never used, so the tRNAs that recognize them are
the rules for base pairing between the third
dispensable.
D) the DNA codes for all 61 tRNAs but some are then destroyed.
base of a codon and tRNA are flexible
E) competitive exclusion forces some tRNAs to be destroyed by nucleases.
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The figure represents tRNA that recognizes and binds a
particular amino acid (in this instance, phenylalanine).
Which codon on the mRNA strand codes for this amino
acid?
Answer: D
A) UGG
B) GUG
C) GUA UUC
D) UUC
E) CAU
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Which of the following investigators was/were responsible
for the following discovery?
In DNA from any species, the amount of adenine equals the
amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine equals the Answer: D
amount of cytosine.
A) Frederick Griffith
B) Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
C) Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, and Colin MacLeod
Erwin Chargaff
D) Erwin Chargaff
E) Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
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When the function of the newly made polypeptide is to be secreted from the
cell where it has been made, what must occur?
A) It must be translated by a ribosome that remains free of attachment to the
ER.
B) Its signal sequence must target it to the ER, from which it goes to the
Answer: B
Golgi.
C) It has a signal sequence that must be cleaved off before it can enter the
ER.
Its signal sequence must target it to the ER,
D) It has a signal sequence that targets it to the cell's plasma membrane
where it causes exocytosis.
from which it goes to the Golgi
E) Its signal sequence causes it to be encased in a vesicle as soon as it is
translated.
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What is a ribozyme?
A) an enzyme that uses RNA as a substrate
B) an RNA with enzymatic activity
C) an enzyme that catalyzes the association between the Answer: B
large and small ribosomal subunits
D) an enzyme that synthesizes RNA as part of the an RNA with enzymatic activity
transcription process
E) an enzyme that synthesizes RNA primers during DNA
replication
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In his transformation experiments, what did Griffith observe?
A) Mutant mice were resistant to bacterial infections.
B) Mixing a heat-killed pathogenic strain of bacteria with a living
nonpathogenic strain can convert some of the living cells into the pathogenic Answer: B
form.
C) Mixing a heat-killed nonpathogenic strain of bacteria with a living Mixing a heat-killed pathogenic strain of bacteria with a
pathogenic strain makes the pathogenic strain nonpathogenic. living nonpathogenic strain can convert some of the living
D) Infecting mice with nonpathogenic strains of bacteria makes them cells into the pathogenic form.
resistant to pathogenic strains.
E) Mice infected with a pathogenic strain of bacteria can spread the
infection to other mice.
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For a science fair project, two students decided to repeat the Hershey and
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Chase experiment, with modifications. They decided to label the nitrogen of back 101
the DNA, rather than the phosphate. They reasoned that each nucleotide has
only one phosphate and two to five nitrogens. Thus, labeling the nitrogens Answer: E
would provide a stronger signal than labeling the phosphates. Why won't
this experiment work?
Amino acids (and thus proteins) also have
A) There is no radioactive isotope of nitrogen.
B) Radioactive nitrogen has a half-life of 100,000 years, and the material nitrogen atoms; thus, the radioactivity
would be too dangerous for too long.
C) Avery et al. have already concluded that this experiment showed
would not distinguish between DNA and
inconclusive results. proteins.
D) Although there are more nitrogens in a nucleotide, labeled phosphates
actually have 16 extra neutrons; therefore, they are more radioactive.
E) Amino acids (and thus proteins) also have nitrogen atoms; thus, the
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65) What amino acid sequence will
be generated, based on the following
mRNA codon sequence?
5' AUG-UCU-UCG-UUA-UCC- Answer: D
UUG 3'
A) met-arg-glu-arg-glu-arg
B) met-glu-arg-arg-glu-leu
C) met-ser-leu-ser-leu-ser
met-ser-ser-leu-ser-leu
D) met-ser-ser-leu-ser-leu
E) met-leu-phe-arg-glu-glu
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A transcription unit that is 8,000 nucleotides long may use 1,200 nucleotides
to make a protein consisting of approximately 400 amino acids. This is best
explained by the fact that
Answer: A
A) many noncoding stretches of nucleotides are present in mRNA.
B) there is redundancy and ambiguity in the genetic code.
C) many nucleotides are needed to code for each amino acid.
many noncoding stretches of nucleotides
D) nucleotides break off and are lost during the transcription process.
E) there are termination exons near the beginning of mRNA.
are present in mRNA
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A new DNA strand elongates only in the 5' to 3' direction back 120
because
A) DNA polymerase begins adding nucleotides at the 5' end
of the template. Answer: E
B) Okazaki fragments prevent elongation in the 3' to 5'
direction.
C) the polarity of the DNA molecule prevents addition of DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides
nucleotides at the 3' end. to the free 3' end.
D) replication must progress toward the replication fork.
E) DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides to the free 3'
end.
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Which of the following does not occur in prokaryotic back 132
eukaryotic gene expression, but does in eukaryotic gene
expression?
A) mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA are transcribed. Answer: C
B) RNA polymerase binds to the promoter.
C) A poly-A tail is added to the 3' end of an mRNA and a
cap is added to the 5' end. A poly-A tail is added to the 3' end of an
D) Transcription can begin as soon as translation has begun mRNA and a cap is added to the 5' end.
even a little.
E) RNA polymerase requires a primer to elongate the
molecule.
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