1. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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2. Reproduction _________________________ _____________________
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3. Phone A Friend
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4. Ask the Audience
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5. 50/50
Fifty - Fifty
You’ve asked that two of the wrong answers be eliminated, leaving you with one wrong answer plus the correct one.
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6. Proceed to Next Question
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7. Sorry, That’s Incorrect
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8. Parents passing ___________ to offspring is called __________.
50/50
Traits, heredity
Traits, mitosis A B
Skills, mitosis
Chemicals, heredity C D
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9. 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
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10. Which of the following is an example of a learned trait?
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Superior athletic ability
The size of your muscles A B
Superior athletic performance
The power of your muscles C D
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11. Which of the following are examples of asexual reproduction?
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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
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12. 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
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13. How can you determine the kind of organism a cell belongs to?
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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
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14. What is the relationship between a species’ number of chromosomes and the sizes of individual organisms?
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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
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15. 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
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16. What process produces sex cells?
50/50
mitosis
splitting A B
fertilization
meiosis C D
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17. 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
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18. During fertilization, the first cell of a new organism is called _______
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A sex cell
A zygote A B
An egg cell
A sperm cell C D
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19. In which part of a flowering plant does fertilization occur?
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The pistil
The stamen A B
The pollen tube
The ovules C D
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20. 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?
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Black
White A B
Gray
Half will be black, half will be white C D
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21. An organism with one dominant and one recessive version of a trait is called a _________.
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zygote
hybrid A B
mutant
purebred C D
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22. 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
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