2. The MMU Biology Final CHALLENGE! Round 1

3. 500 400 300 200 100 EvolutionIndependent Projects DNA Technology Genetics Basics Protein Synthesis

4. Categories The names of the two parts to protein synthesis Protein Synthesis 100 Points

5. Categories Protein Synthesis 100 Points What are: transcription and translation?

6. Categories Protein Synthesis 200 Points The end product of gene expression.

7. Categories What is an amino acid chain/protein? Protein Synthesis 200 Points

8. Categories Protein Synthesis 300 Points The name of the type of RNA that carries amino acids.

9. Categories Protein Synthesis 300 Points What is tRNA?

10. Categories A mutation that results in a premature stop signal. Protein Synthesis 400 Points

11. Categories Protein Synthesis 400 Points What is a nonsense mutation?

12. Categories The component that controls some aspects of gene expression. Hint: this can change with time and is often influenced by environment- think “Ghost in Your Genes.” Protein Synthesis 500 Points

13. Categories Protein Synthesis 500 points What is epigenetics?

14. Categories The physical characteristics of an organism. Basic Genetics 100 Points

15. Categories Basic Genetics 100 Points What is the phenotype?

16. Categories Basic Genetics 200 Points Having a pair of identical alleles for a characterisitc.

17. Categories What is homozygous? Basic Genetics 200 Points

18. Categories Basic Genetics 300 Points A situation in which a gene has more than two alleles (ex. blood type).

19. Categories Basic Genetics 300 Points What is multiple alleles?

20. Categories An F 1 rabbit that is homozygous for whiteness is crossed with a heterozygous black rabbit. The probability of having a white bunny. Basic Genetics 400 Points

21. Categories What is 50 %? Basic Genetics 400 Points b b B Bb- black b bb- white

22. Categories How polygenic traits and pleiotropy are opposites. Basic Genetics 500 Points

23. Categories pleiotropy is when you have one gene that affects more than one trait (ex. cystic fibrosis) polygenic traits are when you have multiple genes coding for one trait (ex. hair or eye color) Basic Genetics 500 Points

24. Categories Stem cells recovered from the result of in vitro fertilization. Genetic Engineering 100 Points

25. Categories Genetic Engineering 100 Points What are embryonic stem cells?

26. Categories Genetic Engineering 200 Points An organism that contains genes from another organism.

27. Categories What is a transgenic organism? Genetic Engineering 200 Points

28. Categories Genetic Engineering 300 Points DNA can be cut into shorter sequences by this.

29. Categories Genetic Engineering 300 Points What is a restriction enzyme?

30. Categories Four things that are needed to make recombinant DNA. Genetic Engineering 400 Points

31. Categories What are a restriction enzyme, a bacterium plasmid, and donor DNA, and ligase? Genetic Engineering 400 Points

32. Categories How a PCR is made. Genetic Engineering 500 Points

33. Categories DNA is heated to separate the strands DNA is cooled so that synthetic primers anneal to target section DNA is warmed for elongation of strand DNA polymerase makes copies of the region between the primers Genetic Engineering 500 Points

34. Categories During this sleep stage, you have the most vivid dreams. Independent Projects 100 Points

35. Categories Independent Projects 100 Points What is REM?

36. Categories Independent Projects 200 Points The name of the proteins attached to the surface of a pathogen.

37. Categories What are antigens? Independent Projects 200 Points

38. Categories Independent Projects 300 Points The definition of “zoonotic.”

39. Categories Independent Projects 300 Points What is “the ability to spread to other species?”

40. Categories The class of organic compound that contains gluten. Independent Projects 400 Points

41. Categories What is protein? Independent Projects 400 Points

42. Categories The small hairs in the nose and lungs that capture dust-carrying bacteria. Independent Projects 500 Points

43. Categories What are cilia? Independent Projects 500 Points

44. Categories Definition of a species. Evolution 100 Points

45. Categories Evolution 100 Points What is a taxonomic group whose members can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?

46. Categories Evolution 200 Points The guy who thought that organisms acquired traits by using their bodies in new ways and then passing those traits on to their offspring

47. Categories Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck? Evolution 200 Points

48. Categories Evolution 300 Points Selection where the extreme phenotypes are eliminated.

49. Categories Evolution 300 Points What is stabilizing selection?

50. Categories Two types of evidence that Darwin used to support his theory of change over time. Evolution 400 Points

51. Categories The fossil record Geographic distribution Homologous structures Embyonic development Evolution 400 Points

52. Categories Conditions that are required to maintain genetic equilibrium Evolution 500 Points

53. Categories random mating Large population size No immigration or emigration No mutations No natural selection Evolution 500 Points

54. Categories It is time for round two!

55. Categories The Daily Double