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Study Guide for Chapter 11-16
Chapter 11
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What is Cell signaling
What are the types of Receptors
What is signal transduction pathway
Examples Intracellular communication
Example of Neurotransmitter
Where can you find the synaptic cleft (gap)
Differentiate among Endocrine, autocrine and paracrine communication
What are the three stages of cell signaling
What is a ligand
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has two sexes, what are they
What is the target cells
The three stages of cell communication
Chapter 12, 13
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What is cell cycle
Cell division functions in …..
Distinguish among the phases in mitotic and meiotic cell divisions. What is happening at each stage?
Where can you find genetic information?
How is mitosis completed? What is the final thing that happens?
Why should cells divide?
Do adult cells divide? Why?
What is the relationship between microtubles and spindle fiber?
What is the difference between pollination and fertilization?
Major differences between mitosis and meiosis
That are Gametes
Differentiate between haploid and diploid
What a genome, gene
Phases of cell division, describe what happens during each phase
What is crossing over?
Number of chromosomes in sex and body
Compare asexual with sexual reproduction
What is a locus, allele
What is A life cycle
Somatic cells contain … chromosomes
What is a karyotype
What is homologous chromosomes
What is (syngamy)
Compare Mitosis and Meiosis
Chapter 14
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What is the difference between Monohybrid crosses and Dihybrid crosses
Define the terms Dominant, recessive, heterozygous, homozygous, multiple allele, polygenic, test
crossing, pedigree analysis,
Differentiate between genotype and phenotype
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What is a monohybrid, di-hybrid, Peliotropy, epistasis
The ratio of a cross between a white-flowered plant and a red-flowered plant
What is Pedigree analysis, Polydactyly
Tay-Sachs disease, symptoms
Sickle-cell disease is …
An example of a lethal dominant allele
What is Huntington’s disease
What is amniocentesis
What are the products of meiosis?
What is Polydoctyly
An example of Polygenic inheritance
Hemophilia is……
Define : Gametes
, Alleles,
Genetics Traits __
Is male baldness sex linked or sex influenced?
Chapter 15 & 16
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Thomas Hunt Morgan studied …
What is Genetic recombination
What are Sex Linked Genes
Examples of sex-linked disorder
Hemizygous is …
Define Non-disjunction, Aneuploidy, Trisomy Monosomic
Define Deletion, Insertion, Inversion: Translocation
Down syndrome is a result of ?
DNA contains four possible nitrogen bases?
What is the human genome project
DNA vs RNA
Genes code for protein
How many amino acids
What’s codon and anticodan
Translation vs transcription
What is Mutation, A point mutation ?
Effects chromosomal mutations
Causes of mutation
What is Genetic engineering
Transgenic organisms is
What is a Restriction Enzyme
What is a A vector, types (plasmid or virus vector)
Clones are ?
What is crossing over?
What are the forms of cell communication
What are the stages of cell signaling?
Types of signals (cell)
What are Paracrine signaling, synaptic signaling, electrical signaling
What are ethylene, insulin ligand
Distinguish between Autotrophs, heterotrophs