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Objective 1: Sexual and Asexual reproduction
1. Look at the pictures below. What forms of reproduction are demonstrated? Label them as
sexual or asexual.
Picture A
Picture B
Picture C
2. Which form of reproduction gives the greatest genetic variation? Explain your answer.
3. Which form of reproduction gives the least genetic variation? Explain your answer.
4. List three methods of asexual reproduction in plants.
5. List three methods of asexual reproduction in organisms other than plants.
Objective 2: Mitosis and Meiosis
1. Is mitosis a form of sexual or asexual reproduction? Explain your answer.
2. Is meiosis a form a sexual or asexual reproduction? Explain your answer
3. Examine the picture to the right. What phase of mitosis is illustrated?
4. Look at the drawing below. Which phase of meiosis is illustrated?
5. Examine the picture to the right. What phase of mitosis is illustrated?
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6. Look at the drawing to the right. Which phase of meiosis is
illustrated?
7. Look at the diagram below. Is the diagram illustrating mitosis
meiosis? Explain how you would know this answer.
or
8 Name the stages of each picture
a.
B.
C
d.
9. Is the picture showing a plant or animal
cell? Explain your answer
10. List the steps of mitosis in order.
11. List the steps of meiosis in order.
12. Complete a Venn diagram describing the differences and similarities between sexual and asexual
reproduction. There should be at least 3 differences and at least 1 similarity.
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13. Complete the chart below.
Sexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
Advantage
Disadvantage
Methods
14. Examine the picture below. Name part A and part B. What is this a picture of?
15. Look at the picture below. What is letter A pointing to? What will this cell part eventually
become?
16. Look at the picture below. What process is demonstrated here? What phase of meiosis would
this process most likely occur?
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17. Complete the table below on your own paper.
Mitosis
Number of cells that result
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Meiosis
Identical or different from the
parent cell?
Diploid or Haploid daughter
cells?
What type of cells?
18. Explain the following terms, using descriptions we created in class. You may write your answer
or draw an example, if you choose.
a.
Parent Cell-The original cell
b. Daughter Cell-new cell formed in
mitosis or meiosis
c.
Gamete- sex cell; sperm or egg
d.
Diploid-2 sets of chromosomes
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Haploid- 1 set of chromosomes
f. Homologous Chromosomes- same
type , same kind, and same
chromsome
g. Cytokinesis- cell divides in two.
Cytoplasm divides in two.
19. Describe the rationale behind the chromosome numbers resulting from mitosis and from
meiosis.
20. Look at the picture to the right. Which process is it illustrating?
How might you explain your answer?
21. Which of the following chromosomes are homologous?
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Rewind your Mind
1. Describe the shape of DNA. Who were the scientists responsible for the discovery of this shape?
Include information about bonding, strength, storage of information, and molecules involved.
2. Examine the diagram to the right. What might the letter X
indicate?
3. What are the building blocks of DNA? What three
components make up this monomer? Draw a picture.
4. Complete the chart below.
DNA 1
DNA 2 (replication)
ACT CGA TTA
GCA TTG CCA
mRNA (transcription from
DNA 2)
tRNA
(translation from mRNA)
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5. Explain the types of mutations in examples 1-4 below. Would each be a point mutation or a
frame-shift mutation?
6. What does the following diagram represent? Describe how DNA replication ensures the
preservation of the correct DNA sequence.
7. Where does transcription take place? What molecules are involved?
8. Where does translation take place? What molecules are involved?
9. Look at the diagram below. Molecules C, D, and E are amino acids.
a. What molecules are represented by A and B?
b. When molecules C, D, and E are
joined together by peptide bonds,
what macromolecule will result?
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10. Examine the picture below. Write the chemical equation for the process that is occurring. Just
by looking at the picture, how do you know that this is the correct process?
Biotechnology
1. What process made this DNA fingerprint?
2. Who committed the crime?
3. What is another use of this technology?
4. What is used to cut the DNA into pieces?
5. Describe the goals of the human genome project
6. Describe the process of creating a bacterium that makes human
insulin?