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Bio 211
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Practice Exam IIIa
1.) Through a microscope, you can see a cell wall beginning to develop arcoss the middle
of the cell and the nuclei re-forming an either side of the cell wall. The cell is most likely:
a. an animal cell in the process of cytokinesis
b. a plant cell in the process of cytokinesis
c. a bacterial cell dividing
d. an animal cell in the S phase of the cell cycle
5.) A human cell containing 22 autosomes and a Y chromosome is:
a. a somatic cell of a male
b. a zygote
c. a somatic cell of a female d. a sperm
6.) Homologous chromosomes move toward opposite poles of a dividing cell during:
a. mitosis
b. meiosis I c. meiosis II d. fertilization
e. binary fission
7.) Crossing over usually contributes to genetic variation by exchanging chromosomal
segments between:
a. sister chromatids of a chromosome
b. chromatids of nonhomologous chromosomes
c. nonsister chromatids of homologues
d nonhomologous loci of the genome
8.) Meiosis II is similar to mitosis in that:
a. homologous chromosomes synaps
b. DNA replicates before the division
c. the daughter cells are diploid d. sister chromatids separate during anaphase
9.) A heterozygous individual is crossed with a homozygous dominant individual. The
probablility of getting a heterozygote is:
a. 0
b. .25
c. .50
d. .75
11.) In mice, grey coat color is( mix of black and white hairs) occurs in the heterozygous
individuals (Gg). When two grey mice are crossed, the phenotypes of the progeny are
1black:2grey:1white. Which of the following of the crosses would produce the highest
percentage of grey mice?
a. Grey X Grey
b. Grey X Black
c. White X Black
d. White X Grey
12.) There is good evidence for linkage when:
a. multiple alleles are found
b. a gene is recessive to a dominant allele
c. two genes work together to control a specific characteristic
d. genes do not segregate independently during meiosis
e. blending inheritance occurs
13.) A recessive allele in the X chromosome is responsible for hemophilia in humans. A
woman with normal blood clotting whose mother was a hemophiliac marries a man who
has normal blood clotting. Which of the following is possible:
a. They may have daughters with hemophilia
b. They may have hemophilic sons
c. none of their children could have hemophilia e. all of the above d. none of the above
14.) The ABO blood types in humans is an example of:
a. multiple alleles
b. epistasis
c.pleiotrophy
d. polygenic inheritance
15.) ___________ occurs when a gene at one locus alters the expression of a gene at a
second locus. ____________ is an additive effect of two or more genes on a single
phenotypic character.
a. pleiotrophy; epistasis
b. epistasis; polygenic inheritance
c. polygenic inheritance: epistasis
d. epistasis; pleiotrophy
17.) Crossing over is important because:
a. it causes segregation
b. it aligns the chromosomes at metaphase II of meiosis
c. it creates new combinations of alleles on homologous chromosomes
d. it causes mutations
18.) Which of the following is not an observation or inference on which natural selection
is based?
a. There is heritable variation among individuals.
b. Poorly adapted individuals never produce offspring.
c. There is a struggle for limited resources, and only a fraction of offspring will survive
d. Individuals whose characteristics are best suited to the environment generally leave
more offspring than those whose characteristics are less well studied.
e. Organisms interact with their environment.
20.) A geneticist mixed together many different kinds of fruit flies- some with long
wings, some with short wings, some with red eyes, and some with brown eyes. He
allowed the flies to feed, mate randomly, and reproduce by the thousands. After many
generations, most of the flies in the population had medium length wings and red eyes,
and most of the extreme types disappeared. This illustrates:
a. stabilizing selection
b. diversifying selection
c. fitness
d. genetic drift
21.) In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of a recessive
allele in the gene pool is 0.7. The frequency of organisms in this population with the
homozygous dominant genotype will be:
a. 49%
b.14%
c. 21%
d. %9
e. 7%
23.) A bottleneck event is a non-adaptive feature that:
a. shows a fluctuation in allele frequencies
b. results in a large population crash
c. results in crossing over
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
24.) The largest unit within which gene flow can readily occur is a
a. population
b. species
c. genus
d. hybrid
e. phylum