Practice for Exam One

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Practice Exam One MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Which of the following terms is used to describe the offspring of a cross of two true - breeding parents that differ in one or more traits? A) Pure line B) Reciprocal C) Homozygous D) Hybrid 1) 2) 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 recessive phenotype? A) 75 percent B) 0 percent C) 50 percent D) 100 percent E) 25 percent 2) 3) Albinism is an autosomal (not sex - linked) recessive trait. A man and woman are both of normal pigmentation, but both have one parent who is albino (without melanin pigmentation). What is the probability that their first child will be an albino? A) 1/2 B) 1/8 C) 0 D) 1/3 E) 1/4 3) 4) In tigers, a recessive allele causes a white tiger (absence of fur pigmentation). If one phenotypically normal tiger that is heterozygous is mated to another that is phenotypically white, what percentage of their offspring is expected to be white? A) 75 percent B) 0 percent C) 25 percent D) 100 percent E) 50 percent 4) 5) Different ratios occur in crosses with single gene pairs or two gene pairs. What types of ratios are likely to occur in crosses dealing with a single gene pair? A) 3:1, 1:1, and 1:2:1 B) 9:3:3:1 and 1:2:1 C) 1:1:1:1 and 1:4:6:4:1 D) 4:1, 1:1, and 1:4:1 5) 6) Which of the following is an example of a reciprocal cross? A) A mother's phenotype in an initial cross is the father's phenotype in a subsequent cross and father's phenotype in the first cross is the mother's phenotype in the subsequent cross. B) An individual with unknown genotype is crossed to a homozygous recessive individual. C) Pollen from the male reproductive structure of one individual is used to fertilize an egg from the female reproductive structure of the same individual. D) Two randomly chosen F 2 individuals are crossed. E) An F 1 offspring is crossed back to one of its parents. 6) 7) Two plants are crossed, resulting in offspring with a 3:1 ratio for a particular trait. This ratio suggests that ________. A) the parents were both heterozygous for the particular trait B) the parents were true - breeding for contrasting traits C) a blending of traits has occurred D) each offspring has the same alleles for each of two different traits E) the particular trait shows incomplete dominance 7) 1
Use the figure and the following description to answer the question(s) below. In a particular plant, leaf color is controlled by gene locus D . Plants with at least one allele D have dark green leaves, and plants with the homozygous recessive dd genotype have light green leaves. A true - breeding, dark - leaved plant is crossed with a light - leaved one, and the F 1 offspring are allowed to self - pollinate. The predicted outcome of the F 2 is diagrammed in the Punnett square shown in the figure, where 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent the genotypes corresponding to each box within the square. 8) Which of the boxes marked 1 - 4 correspond to plants with dark leaves? A) 1, 2, and 3 B) 1 and 2 C) 4 only D) 2 and 3 E) 1 only 8) 9) Which of the boxes marked 1 - 4 correspond to plants with a heterozygous genotype? A) 1 B) 1, 2, and 3 C) 2 and 3 D) 1 and 2 E) 2, 3, and 4 9) 10) Which of the boxes marked 1 - 4 correspond to plants that will be true - breeding? A) 1 and 2 only B) 1, 2, 3, and 4 C) 1 and 4 only D) 2 and 3 only E) 1 only 10) 11) DNA is synthesized through a process known as ________. A) semiconservative replication B) translation C) transcription D) conservative replication 11) 2
12) The primary difference between conservative and semiconservative DNA replication models is that ________. A) daughter strands are parallel to their templates in the conservative model and antiparallel to their templates in the semiconservative model B) accurate complementary base pairing is required in the semiconservative model but not in the conservative model C) DNA is fragmented prior to replication in the semiconservative model but left intact in the conservative model D) parental strands are reunited in the conservative model but remain with newly synthesized daughter strands in the semiconservative model 12) 13) Semiconservative replication involves a template. What is the template? A) DNA polymerase B) Single - stranded binding proteins C) An RNA molecule D) One strand of the DNA molecule 13) 14) Identify the lagging strand during duplication of DNA starting from a double helix in the figure. A) a B) b C) c D) d 14) 15) What is a major difference between eukaryotic DNA replication and prokaryotic DNA replication? A) Prokaryotic chromosomes have a single origin of replication, whereas eukaryotic chromosomes have multiple origins of replication. B) DNA replication in prokaryotic cells is conservative. DNA replication in eukaryotic cells is semiconservative. C) Prokaryotic replication does not require a primer. D) DNA polymerases of prokaryotes can add nucleotides to both 3' and 5' ends of DNA strands; those of eukaryotes function only in the 5' 3' direction. 15) 16) DNA contains the template needed to copy itself, but it has no catalytic activity in cells. What catalyzes the formation of phosphodiester bonds between adjacent nucleotides in the DNA polymer being formed? A) Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates B) DNA polymerase C) ATP D) Ribozymes 16) 17) The DNA of telomeres has been highly conserved throughout the evolution of eukaryotes. This most likely reflects ________. A) continued evolution of telomeres B) the low frequency of mutations occurring in this DNA C) the inactivity of this region of DNA D) the critical function of telomeres E) that new mutations in telomeres have been advantageous 17) 3
18) Telomere shortening is a problem in which types of cells? A) Only eukaryotic cells B) Cells in prokaryotes and eukaryotes C) Only prokaryotic cells 18) 19) In humans, XP is a disorder of the nucleotide excision repair mechanism. These individuals are unable to repair DNA damage caused by ultraviolet light. Which of the following are the most prominent types of DNA lesions in individuals suffering from XP? A) Thymine dimers B) Methylation of purines C) Mismatch errors D) Telomere shortening 19) 20) All three domains (Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya) utilize the same genetic code. Therefore, which of the following statements would most likely be correct? A) The genetic code evolved before DNA replaced RNA as the unit of genetic information. B) The genetic code evolved three times. C) The genetic code evolved before the different domains diverged. D) There were no mutations following the evolution of the genetic code. 20) 21) According to the central dogma, what molecule should go in the blank? DNA ________ Proteins A) rRNA B) mtDNA C) mRNA D) tRNA 21) 22) Given the DNA template shown in the figure, which of the following bases would you find in a complementary RNA strand and where would they be synthesized? A) A - A - A - A - A; ribosome B) A - A - A - A - A; nucleus C) U - U - U - U - U; nucleus D) U - U - U - U - U; ribosome 22) 4
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