Human Bio Chs 19-21 Review

What is the specific location of a gene on a chromosome?

• chromatin

• chromatid

• locus

• allele

What term refers to the physical characteristics of a person?

• phenotype

• genotype

• phenomena

• genes

How many chromosomes do your skin cells have?

• 21

• 23

• 46

• 48

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is an example of a recessive allele?

• A

• Y

• X

• f

If the parents are both Ff, what is the probability of having a dominant phenotype result?

• 1/4

• 2/4

• 3/4

• 4/4

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

In what process would you find crossing over?

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Cytokinesis

• Transcription

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which of the following is a characteristic of an autosomal recessive disorder pedigree?

• Affected individuals with homozygous unaffected mates will have unaffected children

• One affected parent will always have affected children

• Males and females are not affected equally

• For a child to be affected, both parents have to be affected

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Which of the following is a cancer that arises in muscle and connective tissues?

• Carcinoma

• Sarcoma

• Leukemia

• Lymphoma

A process has just occurred in the cell, and the result is two cells with 46 chromosomes. What process has just occurred?

• Interphase

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

• Translation

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Which of the following is not a characteristic of cancer cells?

• They disregard growth signals

• They have abnormal nuclei

• They undergo apoptosis more frequently than normal cells

• They undergo metastasis