Exam 1: Introduction to Genetics

Organisms that are well understood from a scientific standpoint and are often used in basic biological research are often called ________.

What represents an organism's genome?

What is a mutation?

What is another term for a biological catalyst?

Name the individual who,while working with the garden pea in the mid-1850s,demonstrated quantitative patterns of heredity and developed a theory involving the behavior of hereditary factors.

What is the term given to the theory which states that the fertilized egg contains a complete miniature adult?

The various characteristics of organisms that result from their genetic makeup are collectively referred to as an organism's ________.

Who,along with Alfred Wallace,formulated the theory of natural selection?

In 1996,a cloning experiment produced the sheep named Dolly.Contrary to the more traditional method of cloning by embryo splitting,Dolly was produced by which procedure?

What is meant by the term genetic code?

What does the term genetics mean?

Who was the Augustinian monk that conducted a decade of experiments on the garden pea,eventually showing that traits are passed from parents to offspring in predictable ways?

What term refers to the similarity between parents and offspring and what term refers to the lack of similarity between parents and offspring?

Research dealing with which human blood disorder was instrumental in linking the genotype to a specific phenotype,and what conclusion was reached?

What is the composition of the genetic material?

Recombinant DNA technology is dependent on a particular class of enzymes,known as ________ that cuts DNA at specific nucleotide sequences.

In nonviral systems,what is the nature of the hereditary substance?

What is a transgenic organism?

Bioinformatics is a discipline involved in the development of both hardware and software for processing,storing,and retrieving nucleotide and protein data.

Early in the twentieth century,Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri noted that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation.They proposed that genes are carried on chromosomes,which led to the basis of the ________.