Download Life Science Study Guide 4th 9 weeks test 1. What is the difference

Life Science
Study Guide 4th 9 weeks test
1. What is the difference in heredity and genetics?
2. What do the terms purebred, hybrid, homozygous and heterozygous mean?
3. What is the difference in a genotype and phenotype?
4. What did Mendel do?
5. Why does the male determine the sex of a baby?
6. What is a Punnett square? How do you set one up? How do you read one?
7. How do you determine ratios from Punnett squares?
8. What is the cell cycle? What are the steps of it? What happens during each part?
9. What is the differences in Mitosis and Meiosis?
10. What are the steps of mitosis? What happens during each one?
11. What are the steps of meiosis? What happens during each one?
12. What is Mendelian inheritance pattern? What are the other types of patterns? Know examples of
each.
13. What does diploid and haploid mean?
14. What is an allele? Gene?
Genome?
15. What is a mutation? Autosome? Chromosome? Gamete?
16. What is the diploid number for humans? What cells possess this?
17. What is a pedigree? How do you read one? (symbols etc…)
18. What does sexual reproduction give offspring that asexual reproduction doesn’t allow?
19. What is the difference in somatic cells and gametes?
20. What are Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance?
21. What is cancer and what type of things cause it? How can you tell if cells might be cancerous?
22. What is a karyotype and how can you tell some genetic disorders by looking at them?