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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.

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What is the composition of the genetic material?

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

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The work on sickle-cell anemia...

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What represents an organism's genome?

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An organism's genome can be defined as the complete haploid DNA content of an organism.

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

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Heredity refers to the similarity betwee...

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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?

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transfer of genetic ...

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What is a transgenic organism?

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A transgenic organism is an or...

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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 ________.

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

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DNA (deoxyribonuclei...

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


A) Gregor Mendel
B) William Harvey
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Charles Darwin
E) James Watson

F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

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What is another term for a biological catalyst?

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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?


A) Francis Crick
B) Alfred Wallace
C) Hippocrates
D) Aristotle
E) Gregor Mendel

F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

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

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model organisms

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

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What is a mutation?

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A mutation is an inherited change in a gene.

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

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


A) preformation
B) transduction
C) transformation
D) conjugation
E) cell theory

F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

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What does the term genetics mean?

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Genetics is a subdiscipline of...

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What is meant by the term genetic code?

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The genetic code consists of a...

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

A) True
B) False

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