Biology STAAR

Which of these correctly compliments the following DNA strand during replication: AGGTCA

• UCCAGU

• TCCAGT

• ACCAGU

• TGGAGT

In cattle the allele for cloven hooves (H) is dominant over the allele for mule-foot hooves (h). The phenotype for each trait is shown in this picture. What is the probability of cloven hooves in the offspring of parents that are heterozygous for the trait?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

What phase is this cell in?

• Mitosis

• Interphase

• Anaphase

• Telophase

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

What phase is this cell in?

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Prophase

• Telophase

Put the following stages of mitosis in order: anaphase, prophase, metaphase, and telophase.

• prophase, metaphase, telophase, anaphase

• prophase, anaphase, metaphase, telophase

• prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

• prophase, telophase, metaphase, anaphase

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa

• red hair

• heterozygous genes

• mutated DNA

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG

• Gg

• gg

• all of the choices result in yellow

Natural selection is

• survival of the fittest

• humans change

• two species are the same

• more animals survive

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

succession that occurs in an area with no soil

• ecological succession 

• primary succession 

• secondary succession

• pioneer speciles