UVic BIO 400 FINAL - Heredity
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Which ancient idea about inheritance came from Hippocrates? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Pangenesis
What ancient idea about inheritance came from Aristotle? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Form + Potentiality = Actuality
What ancient idea about inheritance came from the Bible? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Experiences of the mother resulted in changes of the offspring (the
story of Jacob, Genesis)
Hybridizations between quite different animals yielded offspring that are
____________ in appearance. - CORRECT ANSWER-Intermediate
Up until the 19th century people believed that _________ characteristics was one
cause of _________. - CORRECT ANSWER-Acquired (characteristics was one
cause of) inheritance.
Genetic __________ was an idea behind essentialism. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Purity
What is preformationism? - CORRECT ANSWER-A formerly-popular theory that
organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves
, What is eugenics? - CORRECT ANSWER-The ability to create form.
The study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression
rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.
An outdated theory that the phenotype of an offspring was a uniform blend of the
parent's phenotypes. - CORRECT ANSWER-blending inheritance
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) - CORRECT ANSWER-Investigated inheritance in
pea plants by observing differences in various traits of the plants from generation
to generation, leading to the idea that information needed to build an organism is
packaged into units associated with specific traits.
What was Mendel's observation of "segregation of traits "? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Uniform parents could give differing progeny; can be considered the
opposite of hybridization
Mendel laid the foundation for ______ ______ _____. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Modern experimental genetics.
According to Mendel's particulate model of inheritance, hereditary factors behaved
as distinct, indivisible entities, or __ __ __, and not as continuous influences or __
- CORRECT ANSWER-atoms of inheritance
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Exam Rated A+ 2025 New Update
Which ancient idea about inheritance came from Hippocrates? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Pangenesis
What ancient idea about inheritance came from Aristotle? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Form + Potentiality = Actuality
What ancient idea about inheritance came from the Bible? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Experiences of the mother resulted in changes of the offspring (the
story of Jacob, Genesis)
Hybridizations between quite different animals yielded offspring that are
____________ in appearance. - CORRECT ANSWER-Intermediate
Up until the 19th century people believed that _________ characteristics was one
cause of _________. - CORRECT ANSWER-Acquired (characteristics was one
cause of) inheritance.
Genetic __________ was an idea behind essentialism. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Purity
What is preformationism? - CORRECT ANSWER-A formerly-popular theory that
organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves
, What is eugenics? - CORRECT ANSWER-The ability to create form.
The study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression
rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.
An outdated theory that the phenotype of an offspring was a uniform blend of the
parent's phenotypes. - CORRECT ANSWER-blending inheritance
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) - CORRECT ANSWER-Investigated inheritance in
pea plants by observing differences in various traits of the plants from generation
to generation, leading to the idea that information needed to build an organism is
packaged into units associated with specific traits.
What was Mendel's observation of "segregation of traits "? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Uniform parents could give differing progeny; can be considered the
opposite of hybridization
Mendel laid the foundation for ______ ______ _____. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Modern experimental genetics.
According to Mendel's particulate model of inheritance, hereditary factors behaved
as distinct, indivisible entities, or __ __ __, and not as continuous influences or __
- CORRECT ANSWER-atoms of inheritance
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