Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

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Parents passing ___________ to offspring is called __________. 50/50 Traits, heredity Traits, mitosis A B Skills, mitosis Chemicals, heredity C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

What determines an organism’s characteristics? 50/50 Only heredity Only the environment A B Only heredity and the environment Heredity, the environment and learning C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

Which of the following is an example of a learned trait? 50/50 Superior athletic ability The size of your muscles A B Superior athletic performance The power of your muscles C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

Which of the following are examples of asexual reproduction? 50/50 Budding, spore formation, and meiosis Pollination, mitosis, and from body parts A B Mitosis, budding, and spore formation Pollination, meiosis, and from body parts C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

Asexually, from body parts Sexually, from body parts When fishers caught sea stars, they cut them into pieces and threw them back into the water. The fishers later saw that the sea stars reproduced and made many new sea stars. How did the sea stars reproduce? 50/50 Asexually, by budding Asexually, from body parts A B Sexually, by budding Sexually, from body parts C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

How can you determine the kind of organism a cell belongs to? 50/50 By studying the cell’s function By comparing the cell’s size with the size of the organism A B By comparing the cell’s shape with the shape of the organism By studying the cell’s DNA C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

What is the relationship between a species’ number of chromosomes and the sizes of individual organisms? 50/50 As the number of chromosomes increase, size increases As the number of chromosomes increases, size decreases A B There is no relationship? It depends on how may genes each chromosome contains C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

What happens when DNA “unzips”? 50/50 One base replaces another The base pairs come apart A B The base pairs change partners One base hops to the other side of the DNA ladder C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

What process produces sex cells? 50/50 mitosis splitting A B fertilization meiosis C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

What is the Human Genome Project doing? 50/50 Mapping all the genes on a human chromosome Creating a clone of the human chromosome A B Changing the human chromosome to erase all diseased genes Determining which mutations cause diseases C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

During fertilization, the first cell of a new organism is called _______ 50/50 A sex cell A zygote A B An egg cell A sperm cell C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

In which part of a flowering plant does fertilization occur? 50/50 The pistil The stamen A B The pollen tube The ovules C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

Half will be black, half will be white A male dog is purebred for the dominant trait of a black coat. A female dog is purebred for the recessive trait of a white coat. What color coat will their offspring have? 50/50 Black White A B Gray Half will be black, half will be white C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

An organism with one dominant and one recessive version of a trait is called a _________. 50/50 zygote hybrid A B mutant purebred C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD

If a dog has 78 chromosomes, how may chromosomes will it’s sperm cell have? 50/50 39 78 A B 156 49 C D Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD