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Quiz #1 BIO105K
NAME _____________________
1) _____ The human insulin gene and the cow insulin gene are:
A) paralogs
B) alleles
C) orthologs
D) mutations
E) analogues
2) _____ The fastest method to search for the chicken insulin gene using
the human insulin gene is:
A) PCR
B) BLAST!
C) gene amplification
D) crystallography
E) DNA purification
3) ________ Which of the following is a phenetic characteristic?
A) these all have insulin orthologs
B) these all similar rDNA
C) these all have hair
D) these all have matching DNA sequence
E) these all have the best BLAST! search results
4) _____ Based on DNA sequences all life is grouped into which three domains?
A) Archaea, Eukarya, Viruses
B) Eukarya, Bacteria, Kingdoms
C) Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
D) Viruses, Kingdoms, Phyla
E) Kingdoms, Phyla, Classes
5) _____ Which of Campbell’s themes for our textbook was emphasized
in describing the insulin protein in the video handout?
A) Emergent properties
B) Organisms interact with environment
C) Structure relates to function
D) The cell
E) Feedback mechanisms
6) _____ An insulin protein is composed of long chains of:
A) amino acids
B) DNA
C) calories
D) sugars
E) methane
7) ________ What term is the opposite of Campbell’s Emergent Properties?
A) feedback
B) heritability
C) reductionism
D) cellular
E) evolution
8) _____ In Chapter One, the experiment on snake color mimicry used which of
the following as a control group for comparison?
A) wild king snakes
B) snakes from a lab
C) dead coral snakes
D) snakes from North Carolina
E) brown rubber snakes
9) ________ What happens to insulin that is in food we eat?
A) binds to target cells
B) absorbed by the pancreas
C) stimulates glucose uptake
D) broken down to amino acids
E) blocks glucose uptake
10) ________ What are the entire genetic instructions that an organism inherits
called?
A) domain
B) genome
C) systems
D) inheritance
E) reproduction